The Prophet of the Digital Age: Marshall McLuhan

Long before the internet, Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan foresaw its impact. His groundbreaking theories on media, summarized in the phrases 'the medium is the message' and 'global village,' predicted how electronic communication would reshape human society. His work remains essential for understanding our hyper-connected modern world. #Canada #McLuhan #Philosophy #MediaTheory 🇨🇦

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan

Bài viết khám phá khung tứ giác của McLuhan về ảnh hưởng truyền thông đến nhận thức con người và áp dụng nó để phân tích cách công nghệ LLM đang định hình lại tư duy, cấu trúc xã hội. Một góc nhìn thú vị về tác động của AI ngôn ngữ.

#McLuhan #LLMs #AI #MediaTheory #Perception #Technology #LargeLanguageModels #TriếtHọc

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1p8x40t/the_medium_is_the_mind_applying_mcluhans_tetrad/

The Prophet of the Digital Age: Marshall McLuhan

Long before the internet, Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan foresaw its impact. His groundbreaking theories on media, summarized in the phrases 'the medium is the message' and 'global village,' predicted how electronic communication would reshape human society. His work remains essential for understanding our hyper-connected modern world. #Canada #McLuhan #Philosophy #MediaTheory 🇨🇦

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan

Venerdì 21 Novembre sarò a Roma alla Rimessa FAB, in via delle zoccolette 28, alle 19:00 dove presenterò insieme a Valentina Tanni la nuova edizione di Post-Digital Print in italiano.
Sabato 22 Novembre, invece sarò a Napoli, alla Libreria Tamu, in via Santa Chiara 10h, alle 18:00, dove la presentazione sarà fatta insieme a Corrado Melluso e Greg Olla.
Spero di vedervi lì!

On Friday 21 November, I will be in Rome at Rimessa FAB, in via delle zoccolette 28, at 7:00 pm where I will present the new edition of Post-Digital Print in Italian, together with Valentina Tanni.
On Saturday 22 November, I will be in Naples, at the Libreria Tamu, in via Santa Chiara 10h, at 6:00 pm, where the presentation will be made together with Corrado Melluso and Greg Olla.
I hope to see you there!

#tacticalpublishing #digitalpublishing #publishing #publishinghistory #indiepublishing #independentpublishing #mediaart #newmediaart #netart #internetart #artsciencetechnology #creativecodeart #creativetechnology #digitalarchives #mediahistory #mediaarchaeology #retrofuture #artistbook #experimentalpublishing #electronicliterature #zines #digitalwriting #mediatheory #mediastudies #digitalhumanities #posttruth #mediamanipulation #hacktivism #postdigital #postdigitalprint

Another variation of the same topic.

Computation for All by All or About Becoming Common and Unnoble — Keynote at Pixxelpoint/ Symposium 2025 Resonances in the Fourth Space; 10am, 15th of November 2025, Xcenter

The world is facing multiple crises that demand new modes of living together – humans, machines, and environments intertwined as an ever-becoming network of resonating realities. Endosymbiotic computation is one such vision: computers, organisms, and technologies operate as a cooperative, self-sustaining system organized around the directive to follow the living and the collectives of the smallest units. Life generates order and structure through energy and metabolism, while simultaneously dissipating matter-energy in flux. Life is not about hoarding or accumulating resources for too long. Endosymbiosis once led to an abundance of energy, as in the merger of proto-mitochondria with larger cells that produced eukaryotic unicellular organisms. Only after this event, roughly two billion years ago, could more complex unicellular and multicellular forms emerge. The keynote will outline the principles involved, how they respond to current issues, and how revisiting European theories from the 1970s and 1980s – despite their middled-age-white-male origin – may help us move beyond our toxic traditions toward shared responsibility and a collectively programmed survival machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwdFSjN0nrY #endosymbiose #permacomputing #MediaTheory #pixxelpoint

Computation for All by All (Keynote Pixxelpoint 2025, Nov 15th 2025, Nova Gorica, Xcenter)

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"If the reading revolution represented the greatest transfer of knowledge to ordinary men and women in history, the screen revolution represents the
greatest theft of knowledge from ordinary people in history." ―James Marriott, "The Dawn of the Postliterate Society" https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society-aa1

It is not because of screens in themselves. It is due to the structure that was gradually applied to the World Wide Web from about 2005 as corporations took control of what was a public space prior to that.

In a sense the Internet was 'enclosed' in the same ways the Scottish Highlands and the Commons of England were in the 18th century. In the case of the World Wide Web, public common space was taken away from ordinary people and mostly given to wealthy corporations and people. These wealthy interests didn't even have to pay for it as they achieved it through a powerful coordinated campaign that involved copyright, streaming, intellectual property and proprietary rights and litigation.

The result of the corporate encloser of the World Wide Web is a devastating degree of intellectual and cultural impoverishment. That is what we are seeing now.

#media #mediatheory #screencultures #criticaltheory