McLuhan at Tony Schwartz’s Studio, Part 2, June 1966 (audio)

Bob’s Notes

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NOTE:Timing based on Payday archives.

Jan.24/2015  1177118-7-1  June/66  with Tony Schwartz:

(Part 19 at 32:42)

accepting the world as a recording studio means the environment is an art form (due to "the net of electric information") 
32:42

McLuhan explains Pop Art ("we then suddenly become tremendously self-conscious of all sounds and effects of that environment as if it were a work of Art") 
33:25

McLuhan then reads various short statements on:
humor, Art, and games 
34:00

more on games, golf, and Art 
35:45

"Rocket" Richard, games, industrial cultures, and Art 
38:25

the "newspaper game", bad news explained, and the British and Americans 
40:51

"the medium is the massage", games, boxing, and wrestling 
43:22

"Help!" vs "Fire!" 
44:54

more on humor, fun and play 
46:47

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and TV 
47:07

paradoxical reversals leading to "growing up" as our main job 
48:28

the entire world's population can live in Manitoba, "population explosion", Black Hole of Calcutta, "infinite mass" and wars, and nose counting vs. "creatures of mood" (a block of color as in my Tiny Note Chart), "Playback" (focus groups) vs. cancer research, McLuhan is not FOR what he talks about, judging becomes an outer activity, end of capital punishment (HCE is guilty), the Uncertainty Principle 
49:47

consciousness as process 
56:31

​Jan.24/2015  1177117-3-1  June/66  Miscellaneous fragments edited by Tony Schwartz:

(Part 20 at 2:41)

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