Notes on McLuhan I

Notes on the first class:

disembodied media - telephone/radio/tv - depersonalization
what gets old first, you or your computer? Seduction as part of the game.

the ground is never noticed - the conceptual function attached to a certain object beyond it's obvious function. the media

replacement of medias with the old functions - emulation of function thru different kinds of medias. computer/blender

the life cycle of an object compared to the life cycle of humans. how desire is played in order to seduce people about the importance of something.

- sex
- catastrophes - a way to keep you under control (do we ask to know about it?)
desire to act - guilty as the motivation (what are your real will?)
- psychological act of TV - how to keep the society quiet trough media
- how isolation would act in this kind of situation, how to isolate yourself from society nowadays?

- consider the same scenario for my work in an isolation framework.

- STAGE / PLAY (media - what is entertainment media?). What are the hidden agendas? Sincerity, purist discourse.

- tagging objects as a way to live personal traces behind.

- finding your identity in society - there is no end to this game

- the content doen'st change only the media that became faster. horseback letter delivery - telephone. How speed transformed everything in our lives.