Sunday, February 28, 2010

Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan on CBC in 1968

One of my interests is how/if we are made by technology how does it change our view of the world and our selves. I've been watching these and enjoying them immensly.
Interesting the notion of the pre/post TV generation which has resonances with the pre/post Internet generation ( I've heard them called digital natives).
Lovely to see prime time television from a point when people can say Faustian or Existential.


Violence is the search for identity.






McLuhan 'to select is to distort' so quote-alisious.
'All science and technologies are extensions of our own bodies' is another apt one.

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