Daily Thoughts 4/24/2011 (Marshall McLuhan)

James Joyce. Photo by C. Ruf, Zurich, ca. 1918

Daily Thoughts 4/24/2011

Today, I finished reading Marshall McLuhan: You KNow Nothing of My Work! by Douglas Coupland.   The book made me want to read Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce.  I have not read anything by Joyce before.  It also made me want to try to read something other than The Medium Is The Message by Marshall McLuhan.  The Gutenberg Galaxy sounds interesting.

Daily Thoughts 4/23/2011 (Marshall McLuhan)

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern recognition. -Marshall McLuhan, 18 May 2007, by Vergel Bradford,  GFDL (Gnu Free Documentation License), Attribution.  From Wikimedia
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Daily Thoughts 4/23/2011

I am enjoying reading Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work by Douglas Coupland. It is intteresting learning that Marshall McLuhan was a professor of classic literature: Shakespeare, Chaucer, and other high literature.  He also hated television and did not watch it much.  Douglas Coupland also adds his own commentary which very much seems to be.Blue Sky Thinking