Monday, February 13, 2023

Will Self - Why Read - Notes

 Essays on literacy.

Behold! The age of Homo Virtualis is quite likely upon us, and while this may be offensive to those of us who believe that humans are made in God's image, it's been received as a cause for rejoicing by those who believe God to be some sort of cosmic computer..
P. 242

It was one of Marshall McLuhan's most celebrated insights that the mode of knowledge transfer is more significant than the knowledge itself: "the medium is the message."
P. 242

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