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It’s time to embrace American royalty by Glenn Greenwald
It’s time to embrace American royalty | Glenn Greenwald
McLuhan’s Wake
So what I end up saying… is…take control of your entire reality… your media, your mythic life…your practical brain are the product of what you have made it to be…or have, quite willingly, accepted programs from others. And again, don’t forget about those cute feedback loops…via McLuhan’s Wake
Posted in Asides, Feature, Technology Also tagged communication, consciousness, mythology, Philosophy
Synchronistic Linguistics in the Matrix
As I write this on the night of April 25th, 1999, a film called The Matrix is number one at the box office. Though by no means a perfect science fiction movie, it still manages to pack one hell of a wallop. I'd hardly put it on the same scale as 2001: A Space Odyssey or Brazil, or even Blade Runner, but at the same time I don't believe the flaws in the film represent a weakness on the part of the Wachowski Brothers' writing talents. I believe the film is designed to disseminate a subversive message through the filter of popular culture. As Marshall McLuhan said, "Anything that's popular is a rear-view image."
The Matrix is not about the future, it's about the past.
Posted in Anthropology, Art, Featured, Film, Language, Philosophy, Poetry, Science, Technology Also tagged Bob Dobbs, Burroughs, communications, Culture, linguistics, Marshall McLuhan, matrix, movies, Word 7 Comments
Most novels make most poets cringe
It is ironic that Laird, also a novelist, has set up the strawman of television (and, oddly radio, that most literate of mediums) to pose as the enemy of poetry in our age, when, in fact, it is clear that is is the novel that has done the most damage to poetry’s reputation. It is [...]
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
So I tell her all this stuff, and I think, “Okay, we’re going to have a conversation about authority or social construction or whatever.” That wasn’t her question. She heard this story and she shook her head and said, “Where do people find the time?” That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. [...]
Posted in Anthropology, Asides, Business, History, Technology Also tagged Business, electronic revolution, History, industrial revolution, Technology, tv, web, web 2.0, work
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