The antimeme of the antimeme no longer exists.| kevinmunger.substack.com
One of my foundational theoretical commitments is that the technology of reading and writing is neither natural nor innocuous. Media theorists McLuhan, Postman, Ong and Flusser all agree on this point: the technology of writing is a necessary condition for the emerge of liberal/democratic/Enlightenment/rationalist culture; mass literacy and the proliferation of cheap books/newspapers is necessary for this culture to spread beyond the elite to the whole of society.| Crooked Timber
A recurring theme here is that social science often asks the wrong questions about media -- and that this dysfunction is driven by media itself. This puts us in a bit of a bind, obviously, insofar as we are relying on social science to improve the media enviroment, or at least to ameliorate the worst faults.| kevinmunger.substack.com
or, Seeing like a Smartphone| kevinmunger.substack.com
As I approach my second decade studying digital media, there’s one thing I keep noticing:| kevinmunger.substack.com
