Irony, Excess and Natural Born Killers

In considering televisual culture, and the question of whether television is an inherently postmodern medium, it is worth returning to Marshall McLuhan's pioneering media ecology work in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964) and The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects (1967).




If you want the postmodern version, have a listen to the 1967 LP of The Medium is the Massage made by Columbia records:

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