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I'm not convinced it's a useful abstraction. It is obvious that text vs. pictures vs. sound and so on have different semantic capabilities, e.g. try describing
by pphysch 5y ago
I'm not convinced it's a useful abstraction. It is obvious that text vs. pictures vs. sound and so on have different semantic capabilities, e.g. try describing a new color to someone who has never had functional eyes.
However, it is not something I would read or write books exclusively about.
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- poetically 5y agoWhat exactly is the abstraction here? McLuhan is describing something very concrete that is not obvious to most people.
- waserwill 5y agoI'm interested in how culture changes and where it can go/is going. Knowing about what ideas or forms of thinking different media favor -- this seems useful to me. It's part of the 'selective landscape' of culture.