Marshall McLuhan

Electric Media and All at Once-ness: Marshall McLuhan on ‘Our World’ broadcast (1967)

“In McLuhan community is based in pattern recognition, not in the nation state but in fragmented smaller groups, which are most often communities-at-a-distance, in global ecumene. Central here is not the citizen, but the communicant. McLuhan’s nomads are bad citizens. This is also a community of speed: speed as a set of interactions in simultaneity: actions, in not sequence, but […]