6/10/2023 0 Comments Marshall mcluhan galaxia gutenberg![]() ![]() National boundaries grow increasingly porous. We can have conversations with people on the other side of the world and, if we prefer to wait a few hours, we can board airplanes and hold those conversations face-to-face. The proliferation of electronic media and high-speed transportation has changed our perception of the world’s size. Before I read the book, I assumed that the phrase was descriptive: we live in a shrinking world. And I suspect most people (myself included) believe they know what it means. He reduced the book’s content to a simple three-word container and shot it like an arrow into popular consciousness: “The Global Village”. The reason for its popularity is that Marshall McLuhan knew not only how to think about media, but also how to exploit them. ![]() The Gutenberg Galaxy is remarkable as an academic work both because it has wormed its way into popular consciousness and because it has persisted there for half a century. This is the 14 th installment of my January Book Project, an unexpected deviation from my reading list. ![]()
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