Wednesday, October 28, 2015

The Medium Is the Massage

McLuhan, Marshall. The Medium is the Massage. New York: Bantam Books, 1967.


Using a mix of visual and written content, juxtaposition and design, McLuhan communicates itself in an experiential way. Everything inside the covers works toward conveying the current situation of media and the viewer, their roles and how they interact. The purpose of his writing is to convey how the conventional boundaries between content and its mode of expression has recently and rapidly degraded. He takes this as a starting point to show how the information we take in forms the way that we comprehend and interpret the world around us. These innovations in communication have become an unconscious filter through which we interact with the things around us, so much so that we are coaxed into following the rhythms established by the mainstream media.

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