This week on Humans On The Loop I welcome Andrew McLuhan, author, teacher, and Director of The McLuhan Institute, a generational ark for media theory in a world that desperately needs more help understanding the relationships between our tools, our minds, and our society.
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Chapters
0:00:00 - Teaser
0:01:17 - Intro
0:06:38 - Partial Agency & The Great Inversion
0:11:53 - Three Generations of McLuhan Theorists
0:21:51 - Poetry & Prose, Narratives & Networks
0:34:43 - Artists Show Us The Way
0:41:29 - The Persistence of Memory vs. The Web As Palimpsest
0:51:36 - AI in The Tetrad
0:58:19 - Opting Out & The Slow Food Media Diet
1:05:40 - Outro & Announcements
Mentioned Media & People
Magick and Enlightenment, with Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford by Weird Studies Podcast
Nora Bateson
Gregory Bateson
William Irwin Thompson
From Nowhere by Eric Wargo
The Ascent of Information by Caleb Scharf
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Present Shock by Douglas Rushkoff
Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
The Interior Landscape by Marshall McLuhan
Ezra Pound
Preface to Plato by Eric Havelock
Jay-Z
T.S. Eliot
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