MDSA01H3 Final: definitions, explanations and examples from Petit's lectures
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Eventually, entrepreneurs or regulators smash apart the closed system, and the cycle begins anew. . The wheel . is an extension of the foot. The book is an extension of the eye . clothing, an extension of the skin . electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system. Media, by altering the environment, evoke in us unique ratios of sense perceptions. The extension of any one sense alters the way we think and actually the way we perceive the world. Marshal mcluhan, the medium is the massage (1967) The film"s political and social implications are also much more serious: deep and widespread, offering a kind of postmodern paranoid model of manipulation of helpless private individuals by predatory corporate forces under conditions of universal technological penetration and colonization. At the same time, the protagonist"s psyche and body become the uncontrollable landscape of transgressive sexuality, boundary- less transformation and abjection, and murderous violence.
