Fwd: a little more McLuhan (& maybe Pynchon) ADDITION

[alice wellintown]

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From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: a little more McLuhan (& maybe Pynchon) ADDITION
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>


The binary that McLuhan constructs based on his primitive
understanding of Tribal civilization and Western civilization and on
his weak grasp of the complexitiy of human communication, which he
inflates with another false bianry when he seperates the eyes from the
ears and so on...is quite useful to Pynchon, but almost utter nonsense
today. McLuhan has much in common with Jared Diamond and other priests
of the grand theories of popular science, surely the stuff that is
useful to authors of romance.

 Asif A. Ghazanfar: "The Emergence of Human Audiovisual Communication"
The basic patterns of neocortical anatomy that produce a set of fixed
neural rhythms are conserved throughout the mammalian lineage, and
they predate the elaboration of vocal repertoires.

http://edge.org/conversation.php?cid=future-science