Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Lewis H. Lapham, Marshall McLuhan

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Lewis H. Lapham, Marshall McLuhan ebook
Page: 396
Format: pdf
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN: 0262631598, 9780262631594

I recently read McLuhan's Understanding Media, and I underlined a few things. Understanding digital literacies: A practical introduction. This comes home as I finish up Charles Van Doren's The History of Knowledge and continue to read Marshall McCluhan's Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. The phrase was introduced in Marshall McLuhan's most widely known book, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, published in 1964. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. Marshall McLuhan, “Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man”. Understanding media: The extensions of man. Most of the book seemed pretty obvious or uselessly hyperbolic or needless obscurantist, with unnecessary and obfuscatory neologisms. With a new introduction by Lewis H. The message is that everyone's daily activities and special milestones are worth preserving digitally and being put out there for the world to see. Maxim: Human inquiry within this system is thus filtered through extensions of our senses.