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Tag Archives: Marshall McLuhan
At the Lost and Found
By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtain “Nothing is more real than nothing.”Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies Those who are never lost are forever lost. Only those who know they are lost and that life is a shipwreck have a chance to … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy
Tagged culture, Ernest Hemingway, Existentialism, Marshall McLuhan, media, Philosophy, psychology, Reality, Rilke, society, spirituality, T. S. Eliot, Taoism, Technocracy
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Saturday Matinee: How to Operate Your Brain
Source: Open Culture Speaking at the Human Be-In in January 1967, Timothy Leary uttered the famous phrase borrowed from Marshall McLuhan, “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” It was shorthand for saying experiment with psychedelics and achieve new levels of consciousness. Almost 30 years … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Entheogens, How to Operate Your Brain, Marshall McLuhan, media, Psychedelics, Timothy Leary
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Snow, Death, and the Bewildered Herd
By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtain Few people at this hour – and I refer to the time before the breaking out of this most grim war, which is coming to birth so strangely, as if it did not … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, culture, History, media, news, Philosophy, propaganda, Psychology, society, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged Boris Pasternak, C. Wright Mills, Cybernetics, Death, Eugene Ionesco, Information, Jacques Ellul, Literature, Marshall McLuhan, media, news, propaganda, technology, Walter Lippman
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David Cronenberg’s Videodrome Was a Technology Prophecy
Editor’s note: Since today marks director David Cronenberg’s 73rd birthday, it’s a good time to appreciate one of his greatest and most notorious works. Though my favorite of his remains the distinctly PKD-like eXistenZ, a close runner up is the … Continue reading
Saturday Morning Matinee: The Net
Notes by Other Cinema: Ultimately stunning in its revelations, Lutz Dammbeck’s The Net explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely crafted inquiry into the rationale of this mythic figure situates him within a late … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, Film, History, Psy-ops, Psychology, Saturday Matinee, Science, Social Control, society, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Anarchism, CIA, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, LSD, Lutz Dammbeck, Marshall McLuhan, Nam June Paik, Other Cinema, Stewart Brand, Ted Kaczynski, terrorism, The Internet, The Net, Tim Leary, Unabomber, utopianism
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