Welcome back to the Trenchant Edges, a weekday Newsletter where we explore some of the overlooked or dismissed ideas that might be worth saving. I finally started reading Surveillance Capitalism this past week and it made a point about individualization that’s relevant to our discussion of McLuhan: Individuals start to become more central in culture when the life of children has the potential to be substantially different than their parent’s lives. A kind of descent into linear “progressive” time from cyclical time.
The Gutenberg Galaxy [Trenchant Edges]
The Gutenberg Galaxy [Trenchant Edges]
The Gutenberg Galaxy [Trenchant Edges]
Welcome back to the Trenchant Edges, a weekday Newsletter where we explore some of the overlooked or dismissed ideas that might be worth saving. I finally started reading Surveillance Capitalism this past week and it made a point about individualization that’s relevant to our discussion of McLuhan: Individuals start to become more central in culture when the life of children has the potential to be substantially different than their parent’s lives. A kind of descent into linear “progressive” time from cyclical time.