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). [...]
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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 [...]
The 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.