ENGL 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Everett Ruess, Christopher Mccandless, Dawning Information Industry
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Book about its own media: current media vs electronic media. Reading for media: diferent media send diferent messages( the medium is the message/massage , experience that is changing you. Tacile experience by forms in which our communicaion takes(old and new) Print: order, individualism, perspecive management, conquest: the world is out there like wriing is outside us : without wriing, there would be no philosophy: Abstract ideas that exist in space(truth: validity based on what is writen. Electronic: network, engagement, surveillance, global village : bringing back aspects of moral world, not something that happens abstractly, but something that. Chris mccandless and technology: mccandless does not abandon all technology- but he does reject social and electronic media. Chris is suspicious of technologies that entail his paricipaion in a network money, cars, radio, telephone and distort his sense of individualism. Mccandless has books into which he writes notes. He writes leters announcing staing where he is in relaion to others.
