home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Understanding McLuhan
/
Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso
/
pc
/
mcluhan.dxr
/
01809_Field_OMMC T37.txt
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1996-04-10
|
663b
|
14 lines
age. Every medium means a new mess. And “the
medium is the massage” meaning the medium gives
you a working over and gives you and your culture
a complete massage. And also mass, age. Split that
one up. So there are four levels of meaning in that
pun. And he meant all four.
He was talking about the effects of electric media
on North America, and western civilization. And it is
definitely a mess and it is to create a mass as well.
To destroy the public and put in its place a kind of
audience called a mass audience. And I don’t know
anybody who’s worried about all four of those
before but they’re all there, all waiting for