Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert
Maria Bustillos,
The Awl,
May 19, 2011
Interesting analysis of the rebellion against authority in McLuhan's writings, based essentially on the idea that communication itself imposes its own authority on receivers. "Just as, in Leavis's view, a poem imposed its own assumptions on the listener, created its own world, so too did every medium of communication force its own methods of connection into the human mind." Or as Lochhead writes, "Our view of reality, our structures of meaning, our sense of identity-all are touched and transformed by the technologies which we have allowed to mediate between ourselves and our world."
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