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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.