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Rough essay plan off which I worked... added rough notes here and there when useful (ISBN numbers mainly..)

Thinking of using sign painting as an example of a dying art, or as something being displaced by modern technological alternatives...

#sign painting #dying art #displacement

Exploring violence, a key issue I’d quite like to talk about in the essay. Refer to commentaries of philosopher Žižek perhaps...

#violence #idea exploration #zizek

We privatised our railways and the energy grid, the WTO and the IMF locked in an unregulated capitalism. Unfortunately, this led to an explosion in emissions.

SPIEGEL ONLINE, 2015

#capitalism #climate change

Exploring the topic of ‘cyberculture’...

#cyberculture

Examining some key issues and questions surrounding new technologies and their potential effects on culture

#new technologie #idea exploration

Applying the 4 laws to two things...

#4 laws of media #application

Exploring the 4 Laws of Media, the tetrad...

#tetrad #4 laws of media

Some reading for the essay.

#reading #books

Notes on the assertion to explore... potential content for intro.

#intro #quesiton

all of man's artefacts of language, of laws, of ideas, hypotheses, tools, clothing, computers - all of these are extensions of our physical bodies.

McLuhan in Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews (2010)

#extensions #technologies

'... McLuhan’s best work focuses on the impact of communications technology on culture.'

Worthwhile article that summarises key McLuhan teachings and insistences. Offers nice musings on McLuhan’s writing style and sense of humour too.

#article

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