Dilettantery

Dilettantery

By Sean ZabashiSociety & Culture
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Dilettantery episodes

  • 1.0 Marshall Mcluhan Intro + Biography Part One

    Part one of a series centred on Marshall Mcluhan. In this first episode, I go over some biographical details and Mcluhan's thesis. 


    “He had a mind that could only think in metaphors.”

    -Norman Mailer, on Marshall Mcluhan


    “The great alchemists…were grammarians. From the time of the Neo-Platonists and Augustine to Bonaventure and to Francis Bacon, the world was viewed as a book, that lost language of which was analogous to that of human speech.”

    -Marshall Mcluhan


    Sources and discussion at https://old.reddit.com/r/DilettanteryPodcast/comments/i7o0m0/episode_10_marshall_mcluhan_intro_biography_part/?



    30 min
  • 0.0 Introduction

    A short introduction, before we really get into things. 


    “One of the first effects of this hyper-democratization of data was to unmoor information from the context required to understand it. On the Internet, facts float about freely and are recombined more according to the preferences of intuition than the rules of cognition.”

    -Seth Mnookin, The Panic Virus

    3 min

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