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Re:Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List? by cirgue on Thursday July 12, 2018 @10:57PM (#17520199)
‘Simulacrum and simulation’, ‘understanding media’, and ‘society of the spectacle’ right now. My focus this summer is on everything ever written about media and society. I am currently looking for works on social trends in response to radio and television.
Re:Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List? by minikomi on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:01PM (#17520212)
You might want to check: Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator -- written by the PR guy who kept American Apparel in infamy.
Re:Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List? by paulgb on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:34PM (#17520335)
+1 on that book, as well as the author Ryan Holiday's more recent book Conspiracy on the Hulk Hogan / Gawker trial.
Re:Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List? by treme on Friday July 13, 2018 @12:34AM (#17520528)
Mcluhan's work would be right up your alley then.

Medium is the Massage; Gutenberg Galaxy would be my top 2 recommendation given what you wrote.

Re:Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List? by r4ltman on Friday July 13, 2018 @12:17PM (#17524237)
McLuhan in the 70s is the most relevant today: specifically:

Take Today: the executive as drop out with Barry Nevitt

From Cliché to Archetype with Wilfred Watson

and finally,

Culture is Our Business, the last book he did solo [the one with WWIII being a 'guerrilla information war']

Also, if you're feeling philanthropic: I'm screening McLuhan's origin story at the Park in the place where he began University in Winnipeg.

At the very least watch the trailer and bask in the prescience of McLuhan yelling Fake News in 1969

http://gofundme.com/mcluhan-movie

Re:Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List? by cirgue on Friday July 13, 2018 @10:09AM (#17523091)
> Medium is the Massage

I initially thought that was a typo. For others reading this: it's not, it was a collage-style collaboration between Mcluhan and graphic designer Quentin Fiore. That's really cool, I will have to check it out.

Re:Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List? by landakram on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:35PM (#17520341)
If you haven’t already, check out “Amusing Ourselves to Death” by Neil Postman.