Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Jacques Coulardeau at Academia.edu (20)
MARSHALL McLUHAN
UNDERSTANDINGMEDIA,
THE EXTENSIONS OF MAN
ROUTLEDGE, LONDON
Monday October 14, 2013 – 9,400 words, 18
pages
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
INITIAL STUDY / STARTING POINT REVIEW(S)
MARSHALL McLUHAN, A PROPHET
THE APOCALYPSE OR
SPIRITUAL SALVATION?
FOR A GLOBAL APPROACH OF MENTAL POWER
AND CONCEPTUALIZATION
Wednesday January
21, 2015 – 2,700 words, 5 pages
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
POST SCRIPTUM
AVENTURE
À SUIVRE / AN ADVENTURE TO FOLLOW
AND
TO BE CONTINUED . . .
RESEARCH
UNDER CONSTRUCTION WITH IVAN EVE
This is the first leg of a longer study that is in the
process of being written.After the review and its illustration I added the 2006
review I posted onAmazon.co.uk, and its
comments, for the sake of perspective.
This review is the prolongation of a long study that
dealt with, among other topics but essentially,
Ray Kurzweil’s “popular-science”-fiction wrapped up as MIT expertise. Marshall
McLuhan ...
[…]
His electric age is based on the stage of universal
(though even today it is still not fully achieved)
networked distribution (the electrical grid) of this electricity characterized
as continuous and instantaneous, meaning we
can use it at any time and in any place we want at the commanding tip of one
finger pressing a button on or off.
[…]
We have to keep in mind this conclusion of chapter 21:
“The owners of media always endeavor to give the public
what it wants, because they sense that their power is in the medium and not in the message or the program” [Marshall McLuhan, Understanding
Media, The extensions of Man , Routledge, London, 1964, p. 216)
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 2:27 PM 
