{"id":19904,"date":"2022-11-28T08:32:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T07:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=19904"},"modified":"2022-11-28T10:20:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T09:20:36","slug":"so-i-need-to-read-them-lol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=19904","title":{"rendered":"so I need to read them? Lol.\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/social.anoxinon.de\/@mwehle\/109420011829372667\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19906 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/28.11.2022-Mastodon-exchange-about-reading-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"75%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/28.11.2022-Mastodon-exchange-about-reading-1.jpg 897w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/28.11.2022-Mastodon-exchange-about-reading-1-158x300.jpg 158w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/28.11.2022-Mastodon-exchange-about-reading-1-79x150.jpg 79w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/28.11.2022-Mastodon-exchange-about-reading-1-768x1454.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/28.11.2022-Mastodon-exchange-about-reading-1-811x1536.jpg 811w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 897px) 100vw, 897px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the 1960s and 70s McLuhan was a household name, like <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Gore Vidal<\/span> or <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">William F. Buckley<\/span>. You couldn&#8217;t <em>not<\/em> have an inkling about McLuhan&#8217;s theories on <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">media \u2013<\/span> even if you were completely wrong you&#8217;d have heard of him and have some notion. Postman&#8217;s book on television was much talked about at the time, in the NYT, television talk shows, mainstream media. Postman refers to McLuhan and Boorstin. Likewise <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Neal Gabler<\/span>&#8217;s <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Life: The Movie<\/span> in the 1990s referenced Postman as well as McLuhan. I remember reading this and thinking &#8222;this is right on in describing the affect of my coworkers&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>McLuhan and Postman warned of a future that was video-intensive, where people were aliterate and so ahistorical. It is odd to now be living in this future and to find that because I am living in an ahistorical milieu it is not possible to reference historical works which well describe the situation we are in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1960s and 70s McLuhan was a household name, like Gore Vidal or William F. Buckley. You couldn&#8217;t not have an inkling about McLuhan&#8217;s theories on media \u2013 even if you were completely wrong you&#8217;d have heard of him &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=19904\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}