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SUPERB article !

Reminiscent of great work by Neil Postman who wrote, “Are We Amusing Ourselves To Death ?”...

...another great and timely work !!

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The great debate I am having with myself, is that, McLuhan seems to suggest that all of this centralizing/dehuminizing is inherent in the technology. In GG he seems to say that this is in part because the visual sense is relied on solely, thus stripping from us our other senses, meaning, it at once dehumanizes us, and sends US throughout. The debate is does technology carry with it this isness of being? If so, we must revisit Heidegger.

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Are you familiar with Monica Belevan, a philosopher of design who runs the "Covidian Aesthetics" substack? She characterizes the dawning age as "Hyperbaroque". In her YouTube lecture by that name, she asserts that the baroque "signals a shift from a regime based on rhetoric to a regime based on history." Echoes of James Poulos (and even more gnomic)!

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Ragnarok awaits!

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