Marshall Mcluhan Full lecture: The medium is the message - 1977 part 2 v 3

Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (*1911 - +1979) lecture recorded by ABC Radio National Network on 27 June 1979 in Australia.
For the best resource collection of his work check out the page Mcluhan on Maui (MOM) here: http://www.mcluhanonmaui.com/
The best documentary about Mcluhan (in four parts) is definitely CBC's Life and Times: Understanding Mcluhan here:
part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvpPb89ChM0
People seriously studying his work I can point to Douglas Hofstaedter. His work resembles Mcluhan's understanding on the basic mechanics behind the mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8m7lFQ3njk
Further elaboration on the process chiasmus upholds for analogy and the role of metaphor as linguistic device under-grinding its mechanics might find ample references in Patricia's Phd Paper Chi-thinking: Chiasmus and cognition here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/19115184/Chithinking-Chiasmus-and-cognition
Note that she departs from Mark Turner's assumption of the parable as a substitute for chiasmus.
Then of course there is the great Noam Chomsky who Mcluhan mentiones in his letters as "stuffing language into grammar". Transcripts of his theories on language and the mind can be found here: http://hotbookworm.wordpress.com/category/literature-feast/language-and-the-r...

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[sambasabrosa]

Australians in 1979 asked great questions.

[ironpirites]

Brilliant man. I was intrigued by his explanation of the relationship between nostalgia and the future. Seeing nostalgia as a forecast of the future almost.

[JillAnderson]

Stunning. BIG thanks for sharing this. wow.

[TheAMOTimes]

People stripped out off their private identities they develop huge nostalgia...hmm? what could he mean?

[ians12cam]

12.24 onwards - remarkable.

[Nambypamby37]

Guess im still "Clowning around"...

[GirlyVoice]

Does anyone know the Jane Austen work he is refering to?

[TheTTBT]

Jokes are grievances. He credits Steve Allen with that one (show me a funny man and I'll show you a man with a grievance). This is such a fantastic post! Thanks for this.