Review
Marshall McLuhan
· Medium is anything message
· Orwellian, big brother Is watching
Postman
· Media
· We choose to be under big brother
· Amusing ourselves to death
· Willingly surrender
December
· Structure and development of internet and World Wide Web
· Xanadu- literary texts linked together
· CERN project
· Internet is a communication tool
Benedikt
· 3 World and 4 threads
· world 1- material world: mountains, rivers, non human creations
· world 2- consciousness, ideas, inside brains
· world 3- infrastructures- human created: schools, clothes, language HUMAN CREATED IDEAS AND ITEMS
· theorize what does it mean to have cyberspace- what does it do?
· Cyberspace doesn’t replace world 3, just displaces items from world 3
· 4 Threads
o heroic narrative overcoming
o mythology
o math
o ca…
final review
Marshall McLuhan
· Medium is anything message
· Orwellian, big brother Is watching
Postman
· Media
· We choose to be under big brother
· Amusing ourselves to death
· Willingly surrender
December
· Structure and development of internet and World Wide Web
· Xanadu- literary texts linked together
· CERN project
· Internet is a communication tool
Benedikt
· 3 World and 4 threads
· world 1- material world: mountains, rivers, non human creations
· world 2- consciousness, ideas, inside brains
· world 3- infrastructures- human created: schools, clothes, language HUMAN CREATED IDEAS AND ITEMS
· theorize what does it mean to have cyberspace- what does it do?
· Cyberspace doesn’t replace world 3, just displaces items from world 3
· 4 Threads
o heroic narrative overcoming
o mythology
o math
o ca…
