Marshall McLuhan

understanding media the extensions of man

[zzzze]

Miloš Vojíř Rose Solaris, 1966 | vintage gelatin silver print

[avtavr]

[pastperfectcontinuous]

Reading List: The Internet and Social Media

Kaila Philo, “The Professional Friends of YouTube”

Rob Horning, “Social Media, Social Factory” (& “Sick of Myself”)

Nicole Carpenter, “‘Neopets’: Inside Look At Early 2000s Internet Girl Culture”

Simon Chandler, “Escaping Reality: The Iconography Of Vaporwave”

Jia Tolentino, “Where Millennials Come From”

Kate Wagner, “404 Page Not Found”

Linda Besner, “Ambient Cruelty”

Kate Losse, “Weird Corporate Twitter”

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Guillermo Santomà, a Barcelona-based artist and architect

[globeshaped]

Brian Eno and photoshop (1995)

[beverly]

vogue taiwan january ‘26 - photography by manbo key

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inside Isao Shimoyama’s University of Tokyo lab: a cockroach has been fitted with a back pack microprocessor, and stands by ready to receive radio-signaled commands. photograph by George Steinmetz

[thememedaddy]

[atavus-blog]

Takehito Etani - The Third Eye Project, 2002

[proustiansleep]

“Modernity was built upon “technologies that made us all ghosts”, and postmodernity could be defined as the succumbing of historical time to the spectral time of recording devices.”

— Mark Fisher, The Metaphysics of Crackle: Afrofuturism & Hauntology

[funeral]

Hans Prinzhorn, Artistry of the Mentally Ill

[stuffedanimals]

Susie Oviatt, ca 1993 https://text-mode.org/?p=24923

[milksockets]

'"my soft office" computers and peripherals designed by hella jongerius' in on/off: new electronic products - mel byars (2001

[dragon-in-a-fez]

keep thinking about how I wrote in my dissertation about how every time a new form of public/social space emerges it's immediately popular with kids and teenagers who see it as a chance at freedom and then adults colonise it and kick them out. this happened with malls in the 80s and diners in the 50s and pool halls in the 20s. my dad was doing research on this trend in like 1975. and I was like "yeah so this is going to happen to the internet" and then five years later every government suddenly decided to ban kids from everywhere online. I hate being right especially when I don't even get paid for it

[deresjot]

(via Pin auf Dibuj-Arte)

[thirdity]

“Increasingly, it is machines, not people, who get nervous. People only become nervous if they force themselves to look like machines.”

— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

[thirdity]

“If the criminal appears as a nonconformist who is unable to meet the demand of technology that we behave in uniform and continuous patterns, literate man is quite inclined to see others who cannot conform as somewhat pathetic.”

— Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media