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Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews (Mit Press),Used
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Previously unpublished lectures and interviews by the modern age's preeminent media seerinformal, accessible, provocative.In the last twenty years of his life, Marshall McLuhan published a series of books that established his reputation as a worldrenowned communications theorist and the preeminent seer of the modern age. It was McLuhan who made the distinction between 'hot' and 'cool' media. And it was he who coined the phrases 'the medium is the message' and 'the global village' and popularized other memorable terms including 'feedback' and 'iconic.'McLuhan was far more than a pithy phrasemaker, however. He foresaw the development of personal computers at a time when computers were huge, unwieldy machines available only to institutions. He anticipated the wideranging effects of the Internet. And he understood, better than any of his contemporaries, the transformations that would be wrought by digital technologyin particular, the globalization of communications and the instantaneoussimultaneous nature of the new, electric world. In many ways, we're still catching up to himforty years after the publication of Understanding Media.In Understanding Me, Stephanie McLuhan and David Staines have brought together nineteen previously unpublished lectures and interviews either by or with Marshall McLuhan. They have in common the informality and accessibility of the spoken word. In every case, the text has been transcribed from the original audio, film, or videotape of McLuhan's actual appearances. This is not what McLuhan wrote but what he saidthe spoken words of a surprisingly accessible public man. He comes across as outrageous, funny, perplexing, stimulating, and provocative. McLuhan will never seem quite the same again.The foreword by Tom Wolfe provides a twentyfirst century perspective on McLuhan's life and work, and coeditor David Staines's insightful afterword offers a personal account of McLuhan as teacher and friend.Lectures and InterviewsElectronic Revolution: Revolutionary Effects of New Media (1959) Popular/Mass Culture: American Perspectives (1960) Technology, the Media, and Culture The Communications Revolution Cybernetics and Human Culture (1964) The Future of Man in the Electric Age (1965) The Medium Is the Massage (1966) Predicting Communication via the Internet (1966) The Marfleet Lectures (1967) Canada, the Borderline Case Towards an Inclusive Consciousness Fordham University: First Lecture (1967) OpenMind Surgery (1967) TV News as a New Mythic Form (1970) The Future of the Book (1972) The End of the Work Ethic (1972) Art as Survival in the Electric Age (1973) Living at the Speed of Light (1974) What TV Does Best (1976) TV as a Debating Medium (1976) Violence as a Quest for Identity (1977) Man and Media (1979)
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