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War and Peace in the Global Village - McLuhan Marshall, Fiore Quentin
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War and Peace in the Global Village
Type : Books
SKU: VV1607347
ISBN: 9781584237570
Pages: 192
Format: 10.16 x 1.91 x 17.15 cm
Cover: Paperback
Year: 2021
Publisher: Неизвестно (Neizvestno)
Your Price: $111.58
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War and Peace in The Global Village is a collage of images and text that sharply illustrates the effects of electronic media and new technology on man. Marshall McLuhan wrote this book thirty years ago and following its publication predicted that the forthcoming information age would be «a transitional era of profound pain and tragic identity quest.» Marshall McLuhan illustrates the fact that all social changes are caused by introduction of new technologies. He interprets these new technologies as extensions or «self-amputations of our own being,» because technologies extend bodily reach. McLuhan's ideas and observations seem disturbingly accurate and clearly applicable to the world in which we live. War and Peace in the Global Village is a meditation on accelerating innovations leading to identity loss and war. Initially published in 1968, this text is regarded as a revolutionary work for its depiction of a planet made ever smaller by new technologies. A mosaic of po |
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