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in honor of the centenary of marshall mcluhan's birth Post date  07.21.2011, 9:52 AM

Here are three short clips. And there's a ton more at this wonderful site, Mcluhan Speaks


1960: "We're just trying to fit the old things into the new form."


1968: "There's no longer any gap between the campus and wall street"


1977: "Another strange effect of this electric environment is the total absence of secrecy"

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an observer worth paying attention to Post date  07.19.2011, 2:37 PM


James Bridle continues to be one of the most interesting observer/bloggers about books -- both print and not

http://booktwo.org/notebook/items-received-by-post/

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