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1/25/2021

Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience coexist in a state of active interplay.

The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, produced by Jerome Agel

No Detachment

1/24/2021

The instantaneous world of electric informational media involves all of us, all at once. No detachment or frame is possible.

The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, produced by Jerome Agel

Psychic or Physical

1/23/2021

All media are extensions of some human faculty–psychic or physical.

The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, produced by Jerome Agel

Recognition!

1/22/2021

The shock of recognition! In an electric information environment, minority groups can no longer be contained – ignored. Too many people know too much about each other. Our new environment compels commitment and participation. We have become irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.

The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, produced by Jerome Agel

Perceptive or Incisive

1/21/2021

Learning, the educational process, has long been associated only with the glum. We speak of the "serious" student. Our time presents a unique opportunity for learning by means of humor — a perceptive or incisive joke can be more meaningful than platitudes lying between two covers.

The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, produced by Jerome Agel

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