McLuhan Monday Night Seminar, January 29, 1973: Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker

Описание: The McLuhan Institute presents the second of our series of 1973 Monday Night Seminars recorded at Marshall McLuhan's Centre for Culture and Technology at St. Michael's College, University of Toronto.

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MNS 1: January 29, 1973 --

From the archives of The McLuhan Institute, recovered from 1/4" reel-to-reel recording, Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker, and guests in the room (including Ms. Sapienza (sp.?) from Leuven university, Derrick de Kerckhove ("a Belgian, among other things"), Davinder Lamba and Diana Lee Smith from Nairobi, a 'Mr. Richards,' an unnamed woman from Michigan) laugh and discuss a range of subjects.

Topics mentioned include: coincidence, lighting, (alphabetic) literacy among the deaf, many, many jokes, jokes as grievance, attention spans shrinking via TV, consciousness, schizophrenia, J.C. Carothers, jobs vs roles, 'prisons, schools, and asylums,' figure and ground, sputnik and the end of nature, birth of ecology, electricity as a peculiar substance, the total environment of information, emotional infantilism, children before/after television (referencing Eric and Michael McLuhan), Adam Smith and homeostasis, ecology and cycles, energy consumption, nannies and Rolls Royces, the madness of the sphere, R. Buckminster Fuller, brutalist architecture as 'Computer Gothic.'

The McLuhan Institute's vintage Monday Night Seminar Series:

MNS 1: January 22, 1973 -- premiers January 22, 2022
MNS 2: January 29, 1973 -- premiers January 29, 2022
MNS 3: February 5, 1973 -- premiers February 5, 2022
MNS 4: February 19, 1973 -- premiers February 19, 2022 - two tapes
MNS 5: March 5, 1973 -- premiers March 5, 2022
MNS 6: April 16, 1973 -- premiers April 16, 2022