Media and Fluidity
Boiled down, the theme of Peter Keough's "The Medium is the Movie," a 3.5 Boston Phoenix piece that I stopped reading two thirds of the way through because I didn't feel a sense of gathering force, is that "reality and truth are fluid, and are dictated by whoever is behind the camera."
I think we all know that. A more interesting idea, to me, is how the constant streams of fluid media are taking over everything...how fewer and fewer of us seem to live or think or create in organic, three-dimensional, tactile ways or realms.
Cowie also quotes a 1964 Marshall McLuhan line, submitted in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, that 'we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time...we approach the final phase of the extensions of man -- the technological simulation of consciousness.'
This "might have sounded a little over the top" 44 years ago, Cowie states, but "not so much now."
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on March 9, 2008 at 10:13 AM
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arch451
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You always spell Phoenix incorrectly.
Posted by arch451
at March 9, 2008 10:49 AM
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CinemaPhreek
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Someone waxing nostalgic about the "Marshall McLuhan" scene from ANNIE HALL in 5, 4, 3....
Posted by CinemaPhreek
at March 9, 2008 10:50 AM
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christian
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I wax about McLuhan. "Understanding Media" is one of the most prophetic books of our age. Still.
Posted by christian
at March 9, 2008 12:15 PM
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lipranzer
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See, I was going to bring up the joke from "The Sopranos" (ep 2:11 - "House Arrest"), where Michael McLuhan from the U.S. Marshal's office comes to put a lojack on Uncle Junior, and the nurse asks him, "Wait a minute - your name is really 'Marshal McLuhan?'"
I'm not sure how Keough can call MEDIUM COOL solipistic and then praise FUNNY GAMES, which has enough finger-wagging in it at those young people with their rock and roll and their TV to make Allan Bloom seem progressive.
Posted by lipranzer
at March 9, 2008 8:01 PM
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