Thursday, November 30, 2006

Creative freedom in the age of anxiety and dread

Re: The processed world of Marshall Mcluhan by Arthur Kroker by Debashish on Thu 30 Nov 2006 12:23 AM PST Profile Permanent Link Quite an interpretation of the McLuhanian text. Kroker ends with:
McLuhan was fated to be trapped in the deterministic world of technology, indeed to become one of the intellectual servomechanisms of the machine-world, because his Catholicism failed to provide him with an adequate cultural theory by which to escape the hegemony of the abstract media systems that he had sought to explore. .... His discourse could provide a brilliant understanding of the inner functioning of the technological media; but no illumination concerning how "creative freedom" might be won through in the "age of anxiety, and dread."
Does Kroker provide the "illumination concerning how creative freedom might be won through in the age of anxiety and dread"? Can we draw that "illumination" from IY? DB

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