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Standing on the shoulders of Marshall McLuhan

Posted By: Higonefive
Date: Friday, 22 July 2011, at 5:27 p.m.

In Response To: When is it a error (Taper_Mike)

Part of us is still standing in the Gutenberg Galaxis and McLuhan would have grinned about Jane Austen becoming a message in the medium. That is why bgonline is such a fine place to waste one’s time. Btw yesterday was the 100th birthday of the Marshall. M. Hickey pointed out, that in “Understanding Media” he suggests “a desperate need for games in a highly specialized industrial culture”. “Real interplay is reduced to nothing in a specialist world of delegated tasks and fragmented jobs..Men without art, and men without the popular arts of games, tend toward automatism.” (a.a.O. p. 7) And so Jane Austen is speaking to us. Backgammon could be an art, a chance, but exploiting the opponents via whopper could end in an “education sentimentale”.

Messages In This Thread

• When is it a error
  Sebastiaan Kuijs -- Thursday, 21 July 2011, at 9:13 p.m.
  • When is it a error
    Higonefive -- Thursday, 21 July 2011, at 10:34 p.m.
    • When is it a error
      sebastiaan kuijs -- Thursday, 21 July 2011, at 11:13 p.m.
      • When is it a error
        Timothy Chow -- Friday, 22 July 2011, at 3:13 a.m.
        • When is it a error
          Taper_Mike -- Friday, 22 July 2011, at 3:36 a.m.
          • When is it a error
            sebastiaan kuijs -- Friday, 22 July 2011, at 7:31 a.m.
            • When is it a error
              Timothy Chow -- Friday, 22 July 2011, at 5:45 p.m.
          • Standing on the shoulders of Marshall McLuhan
            Higonefive -- Friday, 22 July 2011, at 5:27 p.m.
        • When is it a error
          Ray Kershaw -- Friday, 22 July 2011, at 6:09 a.m.
  • When is it a error
    Timothy Chow -- Thursday, 21 July 2011, at 11:46 p.m.
  • When is it a error
    Daniel Murphy -- Friday, 22 July 2011, at 10:12 p.m.