Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:55:42 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: hello?


>mcz-AT-ulysses.att.com wrote:
Other comm. theorists, especially McLuhan, Postman,
>>         Meyrowitz, see electronic media as detrimental to individual
>>         thought and consciousness.  Basically, I'm trying to defend
>>         Ong, but I've had to go outside comm. theory to find stuff.
>>         That's how I bumped into Lyotard.

Paul Evitts wrote
>
>BTW This isn't the place to discuss McLuhan, but e.g. Ctheory has a good
>long article which suggests your view of McLuhan is wrong (Ong's
>secondary orality was very much a product of dialogs with McLuhan, and
>reflects McLuhan's ideas strongly).
>
>http://www.ctheory.com/a28-digital_humanism.html
>
>Is anyone else in this mailing list interested in exploring the
>connections between post-structuralism and e.g. McLuhan et al?



This was my reading of McLuhan as well. Reading him gave me lots of
optimistic ideas. I'd be interested in discussions of these kinds of ideas.
Judy




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