Soc325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Narcissism, Susan Sontag, Heritage Minutes
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Th , 2015 (herbert) marshall mcluhan 1911 1980. He seems to annoy people when he talks/discusses his work because he can sound contradictory. In terms of shaping what we hear the medium does seem to have an affect: hearing of 9/11 through gossip vs. the news. David byrne on power point: learning to love power point: manipulating the media as an artistic medium, showing how art can convey different emotions/words, power point can capture certain things that no other media can. Mcluhan and certain style of paintings: cubism, cubism is the medium; the dog is the message, thinking holistically, seeing things we couldn"t see before; things changing that we once couldn"t see. Information, communication, medium : fashion, architecture (monuments, stain glass, etc. *the medium sometimes transforms the world/media we live in. *relationships have changed (karl marx quote being discussed): a thinly populated country are closer than a greater populated area because of communication technologies and in this sense the northern.
