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‘Simulacrum and simulation’, ‘understanding media’, and ‘society of the spectacle’ right now. My focus this summer is on everything ever written about media and
by cirgue 8y ago
‘Simulacrum and simulation’, ‘understanding media’, and ‘society of the spectacle’ right now. My focus this summer is on everything ever written about media and society. I am currently looking for works on social trends in response to radio and television.
- minikomi 8y agoYou might want to check: Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator -- written by the PR guy who kept American Apparel in infamy.
- paulgb 8y ago+1 on that book, as well as the author Ryan Holiday's more recent book Conspiracy on the Hulk Hogan / Gawker trial.
- landakram 8y agoIf you haven’t already, check out “Amusing Ourselves to Death” by Neil Postman.
- treme 8y agoMcluhan's work would be right up your alley then. Medium is the Massage; Gutenberg Galaxy would be my top 2 recommendation given what you wrote.
- cirgue 8y ago> Medium is the Massage I initially thought that was a typo. For others reading this: it's not, it was a collage-style collaboration between Mcluhan and graphic designer Quentin Fiore. That's really cool, I will have to check it out.
- r4ltman 8y agoMcLuhan in the 70s is the most relevant today: specifically: Take Today: the executive as drop out with Barry Nevitt From Cliché to Archetype with Wilfred Watson and finally, Culture is Our Business, the last book he did solo [the one with WWIII being a 'guerrilla information war'] Also, if you're feeling philanthropic: I'm screening McLuhan's origin story at the Park in the place where he began University in Winnipeg. At the very least watch the trailer and bask in the prescience of McLuhan yelling Fake News in 1969 http://gofundme.com/mcluhan-movie http://gofundme.com/mcluhan-movie