“I have been experimenting,” Marshall McLuhan informs the readers of Technology and Culture in early 1975, “with developing a new series of ‘Laws of the Media.'” He presents them for discussion and critique by those readers, in the hopes that those who study technology, including historians, philosophers, economists, engineers, and sociologists “might enjoy and profit from attempting to disprove my ‘laws'” (p. 74).
Month: August 2019
The University and Intellectual Respectability
In a review of P.E. Moskowitz’s book The Case Against Free Speech in the New Republic, Jacob Bacharach writes
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You, Marshall McLuhan
This blog is intended to be a place to keep track of ideas for a book with the same title, subtitled The University as Medium. The goal of the book is to apply Marshall McLuhan’s media ecological ideas about technology (construed very, very broadly to include ideas and conceptual schema, including organizations) to the idea of the university, an idea which seems very much under pressure and even under threat due to a variety of forces that deserve deeper exploration.