This line from The Smashing Pumpkins song Thirty-Three has always had a strange ressonance with me. It grabs for me the idea that even though we may be able to listen to a language we may not always hear it. I remember one experience I had when I visited the USA for the first time.
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"In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message:
it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same."
Marshall McLuhan
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
#Word2017: A New Media Theology Challenge
With my last post I shared some of my musing over the years in the form of songs and poems. Well, this sparked an idea for me in terms of a challenge for 2017.
M.E. Monday #5
M.E. Monday #5 is proudly brought to you by Harold Innis:
"Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way to private writing. Records and messages displaced the collective memory. Poetry was written and detached from the collective festival" (Empire and Communications 1950).
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