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Doug Ruskoff recommended Understanding Media in Books (curated)

 
Understanding Media
Understanding Media
Marshall McLuhan | 2013 | Film & TV
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"Just read this instead of reading about it. Almost nobody gets how simple it is. It's not about TV or radio. McLuhan's saying that everything is a medium. We keep looking at subjects, but we miss the field or medium in which the subject is operating. We see the "figure" but not the "ground." He's trying to teach pattern recognition, lateral thinking, and to bring people into a peer-to-peer, Medieval, Burning Man sensibility. It's nothing like Wired magazine in there."

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The Last Emperor (1987)
The Last Emperor (1987)
1987 | Biography, Drama, History

"Okay, maybe one more costume drama, but what a one it is. Bertolucci is a favorite of mine, and this is one of those majestic films that remind you how powerful the medium can be."

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