CS315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Marshall Mcluhan
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There are these moments of production and development. Knitting, or weaving is the example used of the striated. Gradually things will go back to following a pattern. We are not dealing with a unique single spatial characteristics. Key point is that the content of any medium is another medium. What he means is that in the unfolding of the development of technology contains. The idea of a dominant media, suggest it isn"t quite right (hails and mchuhan) What if this whole idea of communication were based on unacknowledged, unexplored metaphysical assumptions. Writing is the ability to translate media or sense. When you write something to someone that person does not have to be presents with you, but also that person doesn"t have to receive it now or at a fixed time. Absence is at the heart of writing, in that the person to whom a piece of writing is sent, the writing will continue to function.
