Talk of massive state budgets cuts for higher education has preoccupied everyone on campus for the last week. Ever since the state legislature decided that it might be a good idea to make up a budget shortfall of $1.1 billion by crippling the university system’s funding by $600 billion, the only business being done centers [...]
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The Medium Is the Message
Marshall McLuhan In a culture like ours, long accustomed to splitting and dividing all things as a means of control, it is sometimes a bit of a shock to be reminded that, in operational and practical fact, the medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal, and social consequences of any [...]
Boal, Enzensberger, and Baudrillard
At the conclusion of the selection from Theater of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal writes that the main goal of the theater should be the “liberation of the spectator, on whom the theater has imposed finished visions of the world.”
Thoughts on McLuhan
After reading Marshall McLuhan’s “The Medium Is the Message” for what seems like the google-first time, I’m thinking about his definitions of “medium” and “message.” The former he defines as “any extension of ourselves” and the latter as any medium or technology that changes the “scale or practice or pattern” of human affairs (Wardrip-Fruin 203). [...]
Media and the Material
Recent reading has made me think more about the seriation between the medium and the message — i.e., the cybernetic matrix of ideas about the physical and metaphysical that merge and precipitate new and unexpected ideas. In fact, these two notions — the medium and the message — upon further consideration, don’t seem separate ideas [...]
