The first āArtificial Intelligenceā has emerged in the technological world, made up of real people: the Viral Editor of the Internet. It is currently building a new social reality, creating an alternative form of guerrilla journalism and begetting a new social contract. This collective being is in full opposition to the crowd and is an enemy
I met Marshall McLuhan when he replaced me as a guest lecturer at Fordham University in September of 1967. Thatās the story Iāve been telling all these years, and itās mostly true. John Culkin, S.J., who had an uncanny talent for keeping his ear to the ground, learned in the spring of 1967 that I
In a May 1946 letter to Felix Giovanelli, McLuhan points out the poetry in the placement of an experimental atomic reactor pile mentioned in a scientific report. That it should be situated symbolically in a football stadium is too perfect. American sport, the artistic imitation of American business. Our great emotional educator and indicator. You
At the end of the second year of my doctoral program, the first and second year PhD students were asked to create a poster communicating their doctoral research. Since my own research centred largely on aesthetics, form, and perception as framed by the media scholarship of Marshall McLuhan, the natural choice for me was to
It was a drizzly day in New York in the Spring of 1977, if memory serves. I was more than halfway through with my PhD in the Media Ecology Program at New York University, and Neil Postman was my doctorial dissertation advisor. I went up to see him in his office off Washington Square Park.
In the past few months, I’ve done a large number of podcasts and videos about COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, and the media: A – I had conversations with Neil Andersen and Carol Arcus about all of those topics on theirĀ MediacyĀ podcast.Ā You can find links to them all over, but here are the Apple Podcasts link
During the French Revolution they didnāt know what to do with all of the oppressive royal monuments and the statues of posh bastards on horseback. An argument ensued in which some revolutionaries wanted to tear down these monuments, while others wanted to preserve them as part of the ānational heritageā of the new republic. After
Originally posted July 8, 2020. Updated October 28, 2023. The electric light is pure information. Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media The Trojan Horse On October 25, 2019, Philip Morais with Windsor Law and School of Creative Arts hostedĀ Media & Space: The Regulation of Digital Platforms, New Media & Technologies Symposium. It was an interdisciplinary event launched
In his unpublished work The New American Vortex, Marshall McLuhan included in the first book a piece entitled The Case of the Missing Anecdote. The first three pages of its ten-page typescript are crossed out in pencil, and scribbled across the top are instructions to “Skip to the top of page 4.” It’s funny to