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Episode 203 – Distant Early Warnings: A Return to Marshall McLuhan's 'Book of Probes'

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Back in episode 112, Phil and JF devised a gimmick for a show: randomly select one of the many aphorisms in The Book of Probes, a compendium of Marshall McLuhan’s prophetic quips designed by David Carson, and see what happens. It proved lively enough that they’re trying it again nearly a hundred episodes later. The resulting conversation touches the weird across a range of themes: tourism, the two kinds of truth, advertising, Kubrick’s marketing savvy, technology, orality versus literacy, and much more. A fitting feast for the mind as the year draws to a close.

From all of us at Weird Studies, happy holidays.

• Sign up for JF Martel and Erik Davis's upcoming course on Moby-Dick.

• For dates, venues, and the full slate of Weird Academia events in Bloomington this January, visit the Centre for Possible Minds website.

• To participate in the Weird Academia Colloquium, email organizers Emma Stamm and Michael Garfield at [email protected]

Header Image: NASA.

REFERENCES

Marshall McLuhan, Distant Early Warning Deck

Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

Plato, The Seventh Letter

Marshall McLuhan, The Book of Probes

Toronto School of Communication Theory

Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy

Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine

Charles Taylor, A Secular Age

Plato, The Republic

Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media

Jonathan Crary, 24/7

H. P. Lovecraft, The Color out of Space

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Content provided by Phil Ford and J. F. Martel and SpectreVision Radio. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Phil Ford and J. F. Martel and SpectreVision Radio or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://podcastplayer.com/legal.

Back in episode 112, Phil and JF devised a gimmick for a show: randomly select one of the many aphorisms in The Book of Probes, a compendium of Marshall McLuhan’s prophetic quips designed by David Carson, and see what happens. It proved lively enough that they’re trying it again nearly a hundred episodes later. The resulting conversation touches the weird across a range of themes: tourism, the two kinds of truth, advertising, Kubrick’s marketing savvy, technology, orality versus literacy, and much more. A fitting feast for the mind as the year draws to a close.

From all of us at Weird Studies, happy holidays.

• Sign up for JF Martel and Erik Davis's upcoming course on Moby-Dick.

• For dates, venues, and the full slate of Weird Academia events in Bloomington this January, visit the Centre for Possible Minds website.

• To participate in the Weird Academia Colloquium, email organizers Emma Stamm and Michael Garfield at [email protected]

Header Image: NASA.

REFERENCES

Marshall McLuhan, Distant Early Warning Deck

Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

Plato, The Seventh Letter

Marshall McLuhan, The Book of Probes

Toronto School of Communication Theory

Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy

Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine

Charles Taylor, A Secular Age

Plato, The Republic

Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media

Jonathan Crary, 24/7

H. P. Lovecraft, The Color out of Space

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  continue reading

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