Tag: McLuhan

  • The Disembodiment of Knowledge

    The Disembodiment of Knowledge

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    Jennifer Ramey
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    Thinking about Media with Socrates and McLuhan “Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.”    – Marshall McLuhan A gradual externalization of human knowledge began with the advent of written language, the first alphabets arising around the 3rd millennium BC, and the old Latin alphabet…