Marshall McLuhan 1966 First and full lecture for the Young Mens Hebrew Association in New York
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- Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2024
- Title: Marshall McLuhan 1966 First and full lecture for the Young Mens Hebrew Association in New York
Recording date: May 7, 1966
Location: New York
Some notes:
Marshall McLuhan was not popular before 1967. A lot of the probes and information given in this lecture is from his books of 1967 and 1968 presented as jokes. The occasional laughter of the audience testifies to the novelty of his sayings and observed patterns.
Concepts explained:
McLuhan introduces himself as having been called "Canada's revenge on the United States... you know, from the land of the DEW-Line, early warning system"
the grievance jokes about French Canada (and Steve Allen's aphorism about jokes)
roles ("identity as involvement") vs. jobs ("classification")
the obsolescence of "old age"
the future of the planet as a work of art
Xerox takes us back to the medieval scribe
the Medieval arts were "festive, communal, and participative" ("not intended to give any sense of privileged or elite life") ("like the Balinese who considered art as the programming of the environment" as in Pop Art)
Thomas Merton as an example (left the noisy monastery for the life of the hermit's "silent hut")
McLuhan is concerned for his work in literature but has become more fascinated with the new forms and doesn't think "there is too much occasion to despond"
About Marshall McLuhan:
Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) was the first major communications theorist of how the new media have the power to transform human nature. No matter how powerful or persuasive the message, he said, it’s the media that have changed our patterns of thought and behaviour. Now, in a world dominated by the Internet and social media, McLuhan’s revolutionary ideas are as hotly debated as they were in the 1960s, when he became an academic star known worldwide for his catchy slogans “the medium is the message,” “the global village,” and “hot and cool media.” Today, McLuhan is back in the spotlight again, this time as the first seer of cyberspace. For decades scholars and students have read Marshall McLuhan’s landmark books Understanding Media and the Gutenberg Galaxy, recognizing him as the foremost theorist of how the new media have affected human behaviour. Now, however, we can experience Marshall McLuhan in the original.
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35:24 more info outside the classroom than inside; goes on with more on pedagogy
Mind blown every time. Slowly, slowly catching in, but fcuk. Side note: TMK quotes the shit out of Mccluhan. Never realized to what extent.
TMK?
I'm growing tired of RUclips & Google doling out the "good stuff" per their screening algorithms. I want the "good stuff" without interference from their algorithms.
oh i know, i'm amazed i got this one!
Also look up a 9-minute excerpt of Marshall McLuhan being interviewed by Tom Snyder on The Tomorrow Show, in 1976, 10 years after this lecture in Canada.
This hour-long lecture is quite good but in 9 minutes or less he explains it all pretty much, without going any longer. I just wish I could find the full hour interview with this 9 minutes was excerpted from.
ruclips.net/video/7nZqE5N2Rpo/видео.html
Try sorting by date uploaded and you can dig through mounds of new garbage to find the good stuff.
if mcluhan"ism" isnt the most closely studied science then we will never hold the keys to our own destiny
just remember, language itself is a form of propaganda, any thought you have, or anyone else, is an echo of arbitrariness, study what gives you the feeling you've perceived of that which you feel...
"In our desire to illumine the differences between visual and acoustic space, we have undoubtedly given a false impression: and that is that the normal brain, in its everyday functioning, cannot reconcile the apparently contradictory perceptions of both sides of the mind. There is, we know from experience, a "unified field" of the mind."
[The Global Village, Marshall McLuhan, 1989, I. Exploration of Visual and Acoustic Space, Sec. 4: The East Meets West in the Hemispheres, p. 48]
"In our desire to illumine the differences between visual and acoustic space, we have undoubtedly given a false impression: and that is that the normal brain, in its everyday functioning, cannot reconcile the apparently contradictory perceptions of both sides of the mind. There is, we know from experience, a "unified field" of the mind."
[The Global Village, Marshall McLuhan, 1989, I. Exploration of Visual and Acoustic Space, Sec. 4: The East Meets West in the Hemispheres, p. 48]
Thanks for posting this video, can someone please help me out and explain what McLuhan means by "Orientalism". If heard him mention this in other lectures, but I can't wrap my head around this concept, thanks
George Treheles Ive heard him talk about the differences between the alphabets of western and Oriental languages having an affect on how the individual views the world and themselves. It might be something to do with that. I watched it awhile ago but I think it's in this channels McLuhan lectures Joyce and Television or the Joyce and Film one. Sorry I can't remember which one I'm afraid.
Generally it is the notion that Oriental and Occidental cultures, partly by virtue of their written alphabets, emphasize different thinking modalities. Western language is phonetic in its alphabet and so engages sequential left brain COMPREHENSION while Chinese writing is comprised of miniature pictographs or symbols that need to be APPREHENDED all at once by the more holistic right-brain processing activity
@@jaik195701 I would add that, once learning to speak or understand some, that the Asian languages are both phonetic and contextual, where the western is seldom both.
The East, especially India eastward to China.
Casting his perils before swains!
I am so afraid to laugh, I don't know why I laugh through words?
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