2019 | December | 19 | Searchable, The Future, Transcript
So then, let’s inquire carefully into the origin of all this, because before we explore the future of communication, through symbols, through words, we’ve got to look a little bit at its past. At some point in the development of mankind, and nobody...
2019 | December | 19 | Searchable, The Future, Transcript
So then, it has been said that our modern systems of communication are an extension into the external world of man’s nervous system. Telephones, telegraph, radio, television: all this network of electronic devices is extending our nervous system in the same way as a...
2019 | December | 19 | Searchable, The Future, Transcript
When we communicate what are we really communicating about? What is the content of communication? Because you see, McLuhan’s come up with a very strange idea, that the medium itself is the message or putting it in a punny way to make it clearer, the medium is...
2019 | December | 19 | Searchable, The Future, Transcript
You may remember that this morning I described the situation as follows. I’m talking to you, and you understand what my words mean. Situation A. Situation B is taking the situation A as a whole my talking to you, and you understanding what I mean what does that...
2019 | December | 19 | Searchable, The Future, Transcript
I suppose some of you have read a book of mine called The Joyous Cosmology, in which I referred to once a very curious experience I had with Hindu music. I happen to have acquired from Timothy Leary some of this extraordinary Mexican mushroom. And I was feeling awful....
2019 | December | 19 | Searchable, The Future, Transcript
This then, is the last seminar in the series of seminars on the future. Devoted to the subject of the future of politics. All along, I’ve been emphasizing a particular point. Which is this: that the very idea of the future, has something spurious in it. That to...
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