Have you guys read his work? I never saw a discussion about

I've read the Gutenberg Galaxy and understanding media, as well as a few of his essays. He is certainly one of the most original thinkers I've ever read, there's so many interesting thoughts and points throughout his work. His thoughts on electronic technology and its light speed were very much prescient if you just look around what the hell is happening at the moment.

>>9084961
I'm reading understanding media for the second time. It's one of those books that's a consecution of interesting and engaging ideas, like Becker's Denial of Death. I'm surprised /lit/ is not discussing him more.

>>9085023
Each chapter of understanding media has something in it that makes you put the book down and think about it for a while, I think a second read through you will get a lot more out of it because I found I didn't really fully grasp mcluhan's style and his metaphors until i got towards the end of my first read.

Bumps are the highest form of literature.

>>9084931
>The violence that all electric media inflict in their users is that they are instantly invaded and deprived of their physical bodies and are merged in a network of extensions of their own nervous systems. As if this were not sufficient violence or invasion of individual rights, the elimination of the physical bodies of the electric media users also deprives them of the means of relating the program experience of their private, individual selves, even as instant involvement suppresses private identity. The loss of individual and personal meaning via the electronic media ensures a corresponding and reciprocal violence from those so deprived of their identities; for violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

He would not like it here.