From: jbram-AT-pnc.com.au
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 10:34:52 +1000
Subject: Mcluhan and vision


rojan josh wrote:

>Nick recently wrote
>
>"I'm not so comfortable with McLuhan describing "media" as the "extensions
>of man" i.e. as extensions of the human organism"
>
>But why not? Is not the entire tenor of D&G directed towards going beyond
>the limits of the organism, the social body, the "organize 'em" of the
>despised world of order-words?

Yes, but I get the impression that McLuhan doesn't mean it in quite that
sense - he seems to be saying that media ENHANCE the individual organism,
making it more powerful; not really a deterritorialization. I'm interested
in how McLuhan's (great) insights into the mechanisms of the privileging of
sight can be understood from a more "Butlerian" slant. His "biology"
sometimes seems a bit superficial, if you like!

Nick   



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