today's McLuhan - Pynchon synchronicity tidbit

[Mark Kohut]

'Self-consciousness of the causes and limits of one's own culture 
seems to threaten the ego structure and is to be avoided"--
                                --M. McLuhan 1962-4

Another book important to the TRP of Gravity's Rainbow, Life Against
Death is one of McLuhan's recommended readings.

There have been maybe 10-15 citations of Lewis Mumford, esp The City in History
 in the first hundred pages....

and McLuhan, a Canadian and convert to Roman Catholicism actually uses
a Pentecostal metaphor when he writes of computers being able to instantly translate
between languages...'\"the computer, is short, promises by technology a Pentecostal
condition of universal understanding and unity"---p. 80 Understanding Media


----- Original Message -----
From: Jed Kelestron <jedkelestron at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: today's McLuhan - Pynchon synchronicity tidbit

Literate people think self awareness is a good thing. 



On Aug 17, 2011, at 3:54 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> poke of their internalized sensual life....he argues their