Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 14:26:58 -0500
From: ann klefstad <klefkal-AT-cp.duluth.mn.us>
Subject: Re: intermedia


At 04:01 PM 5/3/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>ann klefstad wrote:
>>>
>>>   McLuhan thought that because  the
>>> >>technologies of telecommunications (the  digital) constitute an intermedia
>>> >>it would bringan end to the  disruption and fragmentation that
>>> >>characterized  modernism.  His idea of the global village is premised on
>>> >>the notion that the reign of the panoptic was coming to an end.
>
>Oh fiddle diddle! This is a bad conceptually as it is gramatically.
>
This is an example of why name insertions in quoted material need to be
handled *carefully*. This is *not* my writing. It's a snip that my writing
(here excised) commented upon. Yes, Dick, I agree with you. I think this
(written by Saul Ostrow, I think?) is a miscasting of McLuhan's notions, and
drags them into an anachronistic context. When quoting, folks, please be
sure that attributions are unambiguous!
klefstad



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