What, Why & How do we Know ?
An interview with Michael Ignatieff posted at Mcluhan’s (Next) Message. Struck by the reference to the hypocrisy of literalism … Amongst “friends” we recognise that what someone means is more fundamental than what they actually say … but somehow in organised public life we use the flip-side … and interpret our own meaning into the … Continue reading “Hypocrisy in Public Life”
As a confirmed atheist, I was about to do some research on the coincidences of atheist philosophers converting to catholicism in later life (Wittgenstein ? McLuhan ? and a couple of others ?), basically wondering if there was an intellectual elitst attraction with the hierarchy in said church. That’ll have to wait. I stumbled across the … Continue reading “The Atheist and the Archbishop”
Talking of “offers you can’t refuse” as I was earlier … Mark Federman’s McLuhan Blog has some interesting items … This story about US Telco’s considering charging the likes of Google a premium for “expedited” comms service. Interesting thoughts, though I’m guessing Google’s muscle and distributed content will give ’em flexibility of channels ? And … Continue reading “Protection Racket ?”
Oh well, after raising ID-Creationism yet again, I may as well put up this ironic Doonesbury link. [via McLuhan’s Next Message]. You have to smile. Mark Federman’s piece is about the necessity of irony, or Menippean Satire in particular, after Menippus the Cynic philosopher documented by Marcus Aurelius. Read Mark’s “Fifth Law of Media“.
As well as the current spats in MoQ-Discuss about hoaxes, honesty, motives, rights and freedoms, I see Mark Federman over at the McLuhan Program’s “What is the Message” has had to move to a new private blog “What is the (Next) Message” in oder to voice his own opinions. “So Long and Thanks for All … Continue reading “Intellectual Integrity is Catching”
Almost blogged this BBC news story about Hitachi’s new technology to shift disk storage up an order of magnitude a few days ago. But I needed to see (and hear) this from the Toronto McLuhan Message blog before I actually did it. Neat.
Well maybe not. I picked-up on this paper on the “Technosophy” site of Terry Alden’s, because of a search hit on the 22 in my Catch-22, only to find a whole culture of synchronicity around the number 22 (and 23 ?). Anyway, some of it is probably too mystic and new age, but the particular … Continue reading “It’s in the numbers ?”
From Piers Young at Monkey Magic, Reading The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Warren Weaver and Claude Shannon. Actually several good spots from Piers. Like this set of “shit ideas” from gapingvoid, also via Monkey Magic. And this “relationship” is the message is the medium take on McLuhan, from this Harvard Business School paper – … Continue reading “The Pragmatic Web”