CS315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Gutenberg Galaxy, Prepress, Marshall Mcluhan
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Medieval culture you got lists, also called chronicles. 1500 the other is being presented both with people outside europe, and also people in north and south america. Argument is that the development the printing press, brought about a fundamental formation of mentalities. Print changes what it means to be human. After print we don"t experience life the same way. Looks at specific historical events, to indicate how they came out of this transformed experience. Shakespeare loses its performance when it is written. Trying to read the probes itself, it is hard to see if there is an underlying argument. Rather than a continuous argument, you get an expanding/developing picture. Friends don"t need to watch all episodes, all different. This book doesn"t finish at the end or start at the beginning. Whole book is made out of quotations. The french more than any other modern nation . Vernacular is the speech of the common people.