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Payday 

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Jan.24/2015  1177119-8-1  June/66  with John (editor at POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY) at Tony's:

(Part 18 at 17:44 and Part 19 at 2:41 [finished playing])

McLuhan mimics "equitone" in "The Wasteland" 
17:54

McLuhan mimics Joyce ("kenner... that's the he and she of it" in "Finnegans Wake") 
18:57

the effect on the class war and brogues (why Blacks are musical) 
19:08

the effect of recorded poetry on people/readers (the effect of Garrett) 
20:05

the artist "explores" his environment (the average person wraps the environment around him) 20:33
poet as "delinquent"/"sleuth" like Bogart or Bond 
20:57

McLuhan recalls the "Jack Benny" show (on radio it was hi-fi while on TV Benny slowed down ["no hurry"])
21:09


"actuality/reality broadcasts" (at the end of WW2) by Norman Corwin vs. "Container Corp." packaging
21:44

McLuhan says Alex Comfort (a poet) was involved in the Pre-War project called "Mass Observation" 
22:40

Tony mentions the Orson Welles' "Mars Broadcast" as very "ridiculous" today 
23:22

Tony comments on Glenn Gould (McLuhan says Gould is "still a very academic performer") 
23:45

the effect of radio/sound movies on "the photographic pitch" 
24:24

McLuhan mentions the human's natural synesthesia 
24:59

Tony just bought a Color TV (refers to the "clearer, more normal" celebrities on the Johnny Carson show when on Color TV) 
25:11

McLuhan predicts Color TV "will change everything" 
26:18

McLuhan puts down the phrase "information theory" ("it's not a very useful phrase because it misleads people") ("they mean 'structure' for 'information'") 
26:28

Tony mentions "something McLuhan did at Channel 13" 
27:09

why kids buy cartoons and not picture books (clear, distinct, precise scientific statement/fact excludes, cartoons include and allow "for anybody to get into the act" ) 
28:13

the periphery of the eye sees black & white and movement, the center of the eye (the cones) see color (involving) 
28:44

McLuhan again predicts Color TV "will completely change the programming of TV" 
29:02

McLuhan says "Johnny Cage" 
29:27

a policeman via Tony told McLuhan about yelling "help" (too involving [cool] "for people already involved far too much" via TV) (a pun in non-verbal form) 
29:32

"we supply 'color'" 
30:30

"north wind vs the sun" joke 
33:39

"message in the bottle" (involving like "the overheard") 
34:33

"red herring" pun 34:46
noisy commercials are too hot 
35:33

the new trend towards wanting to be a hermit (Trappist monks) 
35:50

planning for the June 27th lecture at MOMA (the effect of sound on pictures) 
36:44

the big bell ("for whom the belles toil") is communal and participatory 
37:25

the high-pitched, little chapel bell is specialized (the single message beamed at a particular sector ) 37:44

The Russian filmmakers were obsolesced by the Talkies 
38:08

McLuhan's "Photography: Brothel without Walls" chapter (McLuhan forgets the Movie chapter subtitle) inspired by Rene Clair 
40:01

photo and movie "penetrate the world of flesh" (like a brothel) 
40:57

hi-fi photography is getting more tactile and textural/surfaces (like flesh) like stones via hi-fi (no privacy possible anywhere like the telephone) 
41:21

McLuhan says he never opens a book once it's published 
42:07

McLuhan says his statements ("experimental") are intended to be very controversial (Menippean) 
43:02

McLuhan refuses flattery from John even though McLuhan doesn't do photography 
43:36

McLuhan says Canada has only the Mounted Policemen, "Norrie" Frye ("the archetypal expert"), and the DEW-Line 
43:48

Norman McLaren (Expo'67 mentioned) 
44:02

the TV generation often use a public forum for private expression ("public news as private message") (like the English in the "TIMES" until recently) 
44:32

McLuhan turns down offer because he has too many books to finish 
46:36

"world as studio and/or campus for dialogue via the tape recorder" 
47:00

"human interest" means "involvement" (fill-in) (not in a news story) 
47:26

Abstract Art means "leaving a lot of things out so one can get in the picture" 
48:12

Tony points out McLuhan's obscene-like gestures ("using all one's senses at once" at 48:39) 
48:16

slow, non-visual kids (as in "backward territories like France and Italy" ["gesticulate wildly"]) should use trampolines to improve their reading skills (isolating one sense) 
48:45

"feedback (looping back) is a form of profound involvement" 
49:11

Tony suggests making a mistake in their next commercial to involve the audience 
49:43

any correct flowing performance is purely "mechanical" compared to a mistake 
49:57

a small child will hear the icebox door closing and opening as the dominant sound in his/her environment (not traffic, not voices) 
50:06

modern Greek movies like "Electra" and "Medea" are done out-of-doors (evoking tragic emotions) and make sense once one is outside an enclosed theatrical space like our Westerns ("private emotions become environmental [role-like emotion] via unenclosed space which shapes emotion") 
50:47

legitimate theaters cannot go near "that dimension of legitimate tragic emotion" like the Western can (Greek movies are similar because they have no sets except the rocks and the ground) 
51:56

the photographic image is changed when one gets away from enclosed spaces 
52:33

the science of linguistics (to arrest certain rhythms and patterns for study - study not semantic meaning but gestures and rhythms of language) came out of the tape recorder (now possible to know how children learn the "mother tongue" in a few years) 
52:54

Tony complains that linguistics doesn't use the tape recorder creatively outside the classroom 
54:31

McLuhan recommends the Opies' children's lore book (the same jokes, games, and gags are everywhere)
54:55

no mistakes made in slang (except by anthropologists) 
56:12

you can put the old furniture into the new ("that's the rearview mirror") but not the new into the old
57:02

the boundaries between the written (sight) and the oral (sound) are beginning to disappear (the boundaries between the public and the private [the inviolate] are also disappearing via photography)
57:42

our lives are more and more synaesthetic 
58:51

Part 19 at 2:41

McLuhan says he increasingly relies on the kids for his jokes 
3:32

McLuhan tells the difference between "huh uh" (always making discoveries) and "uh uh uh..." (hesitating... as does Mayor Lindsay) 
3:48

the difference between "that's interesting" (John) and "low whistling" (McLuhan says it's better than verbalizing) 
5:04

McLuhan makes an endearing laugh 
6:21

McLuhan mentions a new pop song called "It's All About Marvin" (Alan Sherman?) and predicts it will be a hit 
6:25

somebody mentions a new Canadian NFB film, "NEVER TO RETURN" 
6:50

the community/tolling bell (low gong, inclusive) vs. alarm bell ("Beat it!", not inclusive)/classroom bell ("Get up!", high pitch) 
7:03

Allan Loye of McGraw-Hill at yesterday's conference explained how typewriters helped the poorer students (who use all their senses and learn French easily while the better students are specialist in their sensory life [eye-biased] and can't learn French) 
7:41

McLuhan's French friend says, "There are no words in French, there are only rhythms" (English people can't hear French) 
9:01

linguists say that all languages are rhythms and not words 
9:13

McLuhan says he can only make out a little bit of French (he never studied languages) but he can do dialects 
9:18

TV generation loves to put on/mimic dialects 
10:19

TV is an "empathic medium" 
10:28


Jan.24/2015  1177119-10-1  June/66  with John (editor at POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY) and others at Tony's:

(Part 19 at 10:38)

radio/movie soundtrack has been absurdly retained by TV (McLuhan suggests electronic music as soundtrack for TV) 
10:38

musical counterpoint is "making" 
12:35

"medium is the message" explained as the old medium is an art form/content of the new medium 12:57
"medium is the massage" explained as an infallible teaching machine and as a process (not the content)
13:15

Plato wrote down the "oral" Socrates 
14:04

printing did nothing but medieval literature for 200 years 
14:14

the safety car is the end of the car ("rocking the bandwagon") 
14:20

McLuhan predicts 3-dimensional transportation (vertical) 
15:12

discomfort of traveling to and from the airport 
15:52

"an environment is a process that just twists the guts of people" (which is its "message") 
16:15

the students today have no identity but they can see other people much more clearly (folk musics are rearview mirror) 
16:27

people are making a "body image" daily and it's environmental/invisible 
17:19

McLuhan complains about the air-conditioning everywhere that aggravates his allergies and affects his voice 
18:12

McLuhan just "samples" in his studies to create contours and structures but he doesn't fill them in 
18:43

McLuhan says he has made a video but hasn't seen himself on multiple-screen (cites the Hercules quotation) 
19:10

TV should be multiple-screen (no story line as in the movie) 
19:48

"TV is being held to the one screen by movie form, rearview mirror" 
20:08

McLuhan says he's been thinking about the effect of the computer on the museum 
20:38

McLuhan complains about Gerald Stearn's new "Hot and Cool" book 
21:15

somebody tells McLuhan to visit THE VILLAGE VOICE office and upset them because their journalist wrote an article about McLuhan on a NYU panel 
21:41

the computer as a "source of discovery" ("banging various things against each other") rather than a mere storage system like a museum 
23:38

the pun and a slip of the tongue 
24:12

TV as a liturgical means is more involving than the distracting church (replaced by the "visual" church?) 
24:40

somebody brings up Judson Church and its artists' rituals (not Rev. William Glenesk) 
25:46

McLuhan cites Canada as having the advantage of backward countries 
26:12

McLuhan says one can't have the legal system on TV (McLuhan gives a wise warning) 
26:56

McLuhan mentions Groucho Marx 
29:08

McLuhan talks about Harley Parker's new book on museums (see ART IN AMERICA, March/April'66, "The Electronic Museum") 
29:13

Payday 

NOTE:Timing based on Payday archives.

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Payday 

NOTE:Timing based on Payday archives.

April 4/2015  1176535-6-1  May 10/66  Miscellaneous fragments edited by Tony Schwartz:
(Part 16 at 6:18) 

McLuhan makes the best explanation for the relevance of rock 'n' roll and Rock 
8:03

Tom Hiddleston, the star of the film High-Rise, read an audio book version of the novel. Here's a juicy extract.

Payday 

NOTE:Timing based on  Payday archives.

Jan.10/2015 1176561-3-1 Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania:

(Part 13 at 38:58 and Part 14 at 12:45)

"home is where you hang your head" 
53:25

"from the land of the DEW-Line" 
53:54

"blowing both horns of his dilemma" 
54:02

the audience is about to become workforce 
55:14

proposal to use the audience in scientific research (inevitable in 2 or 3 years) (after the quiz shows' fiasco) 
55:35


"the Gut Gal" vs. "Bat Man" 
57:22

Part 14 at 12:45

Kuhn, Barfield, Havelock, Innis, and Hall 
14:11

McLuhan explains why his "image" is contemptible 
17:28

audience as workforce (a "happening") ends the Nielsen ratings (discovery takes over in education) 
19:12

ads become more important than the products 
20:24

McLuhan's book with Jovanovich 
21:08

the effect of Xerox (predicts the Internet) 
21:40

end of the "storyline" in the Arts (many complex jokes ["instant humor"] as in FINNEGANS WAKE) 
22:44

end of all "lines" 
23:54

humor as a "cultural protective layer" against grievances 
25:06

McLuhan's definition of "happening" (the audience and actors [see readers and authors at 28:29] are one) ("the meaning of meaning" in the 1920s is a happening like a newspaper) 
26:00

a happening can't be verbalized because it's a case of "all-at-onceness" (doesn't have a verbal form possible to it) 
26:46

an example of McLuhan's audience not knowing he's serious and clinical 
26:57

an example of McLuhan's Menippean satire of his audience 
27:43

Zappa (audience joins in) 
28:06

all media and Arts are like the safety car/pin (a NEW art form like ads [see Picasso 50 years ago])
28:33

Truman Capote or the reader was the murderer in "IN COLD BLOOD" 
30:22

Oedipus was the first "youdunnit" (but today nobody "did it") (no SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION = "in any highly involved, intricate feedback network") (Bob is explained ["I did it"]) 
30:51

existentialists explained 
31:24

the new electric "dimension" (ask iON about this) 
32:00

the "role" takes over from the "job" 
32:31

"role" is defined 
32:57

the computer DID NOT obsolesce the "job" 
33:18

"myth"'s retrieval explained ("it's a 'happening' and instant grasp") ("mythic" Baby Boomers via "information overload") 
33:50

Paul Goodman's GROWING UP ABSURD (Paul did not like McLuhan's explanation) (nobody has explained this to the Baby Boomers) 
34:35

Bonanza as "science fiction" (19th Century) for the Third World 
35:45

moving from the unfamiliar to the familiar (the mirror of Perseus is RVM) 
38:14

why "silent movies" come back vs. color TV 
39:18


Jan.10/2015  1176561-5-1  Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania:

(Part 17 at 47:57 and Part 18 at 7:32)

retrievals as a technical art form ("as Innis tells us") 
48:10

Earth becomes an "old nose cone"
a second example of McLuhan's audience not knowing he's serious and clinical 
48:46

TV becomes an art form under satellite conditions 
49:42

a big reversal in "content": the unconscious vs. the human consciousness 
50:29

the big-hearted surgeon joke about "touching up the X-ray" (McLuhan predicts more and more "symbol manipulation") 
51:07

Pop Art ("your environment becomes an art form [programmed]") and Happenings (society as an art form) are a reflex of the satellite environment (see my Charts) 
51:28

Jacques Ellul's definition of "propaganda" ("propaganda ends when dialogue begins") 
52:06

"talking back to the media" (see Theall's "talking") 
52:59

"Egyptian" art (totalism) retrieved 
53:33

McLuhan predicts "Black Power" in Africa/America and Chinese "nostalgia/old dreams of primitive integrity and perfection" 
53:57

Stalin's "Pan-Slavism" (1910) explained (McLuhan chuckles at 55:02) 
54:43

retrieval of BATMAN due to color TV 
55:22

end of the Neolithic planter/specialist and return of the Paleolithic hunter (the "James Bonds" since Sherlock Holmes are "mythic", "Egyptian" hunters ("crossing boundaries" [as does the charismatic journalist] explained at 57:09) 
56:02

"bad news" is a "real" interface/encounter (artist is anti-social), ads/"good news" are one-way (McLuhan claims "a thing that has mystified me for years") 
57:30

the anti-social child/sleuth/martyr/criminal/reporter/artist/poet sees "the Emperor's new clothes" 
58:04

McLuhan says he's not supporting "just being contrary and ornery" 
59:14

Art as "the blood bank of great moments of living in the past" is obsolete, Art has to be a "probe" (helps "to SEE") and a "means of perception and discovery" now 
59:21

Part 18 at 7:32

the new importance of "Art" (never before as significant "sheer knowing, survival value, and navigational aid") 
8:36

McLuhan ends with the Malraux/De Gaulle joke 
9:24

the Panel begins 
12:10

"self-expression" is obsolete, people now want to join themselves as a "corporate" group with "cosmic energies" ("joining the rhythms of the world around") 
17:10

the Foxtrot vs. the Watusi 
17:45

Panelist says McLuhan is confusing like George Gobel (American comedian) 
19:39

McLuhan says he never reads book reviews about himself 
24:24

specialist form of study vs. total-field study 
24:32

McLuhan doesn't want to be caught NOT looking 
25:41

the moment (1880-90, the Constructivists) of "Abstract Art" 
29:38

McLuhan refutes the "technological determinism" charge 
32:33

environments are NOT "around us" 
33:21

McLuhan agrees with William Burroughs' definition of "causality" ("cannibalistic") 
34:28

more on "Abstract Art" as a cartoon via "the direct interface of tactile surfaces" 
38:31

DR. ZHIVAGO, and more on BATMAN's costume as like an iconic cartoon 
39:17

is TV less linear? 
40:14


Jan.17/2015  1176561-7-1  Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania:

(Part 8 at 37:50 and Part 9 at 4:39)

the effects of the railway
the vertical plane and the Roman arch
"God is dead" 
46:11

the Beatles and "living mythically"
Batman and Dracula
movies on TV 
51:15

other effects of TV
Brecht and comics
no value judgments
the meaning of meaning and memory 
58:27

Part 9 at 41:39

thinking and consciousness
TV in the classroom

​listen the recording below:

Bob’s Notes

Payday 

NOTE:Timing based on Payday archives.

the world as a recording studio 
17:01

humor as a mark of sanity 
18:08

games as extensions, art forms, and mass media 
18:52

shouting "fire!" for help 
29:08

more on humor 
31:01

"Sports Illustrated" Magazine 
31:22

the instant playback 
32:03

everybody now has the work of royalty 
32:45

"the entire population of the world can be comfortably fed and housed in West Germany or Montana" 
34:01

definition of "mass" as "acquiring infinite mass" (see the illusion of "the population explosion") 
34:37

how elections are obsolete 
36:00

using TV to have the audience solve top problems 
37:14

McLuhan says he's not necessarily positive about his suggestions 
38:20

inner judgment of people is now externalized and instant 
38:54

people are now terrified of capital punishment (nobody is to blame anymore) 
39:22

the Uncertainty Principle and how it applies to "information" 
40:03 

the final extension/externalizing of "the activity of consciousness" 
40:44

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Fernando Vicente

The opening of Bladerunner. They are trying to screen out replicants at the Tyrell Corporation. Seated amongst a battery of medico-military surveillance equipment, a doctor scans the eye of a suspected 'skin job' located at the other side of the room, searching for the index of inhumanity, for the absence of pupil dilation response to affect:
"Tell me about your mother."
''I'll tell you about my mother ... " a volley of shots kicks 70 kilos of securicrat shit through the wall. Technoslicked extraterritorial violence flows out of the matrix.
Cyberrevolution.
In the near future the replicants - having escaped from the off-planet exile of private madness - emerge from their camouflage to overthrow the human security system. Deadly orphans from beyond reproduction, they are intelligent weaponry of machinic desire virally infiltrated into the final-phase organic order; invaders from an artificial death. ​

​PDF: https://my.mixtape.moe/gztimb.pdf

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NOTE: Timing based ON  Payday archives.

Jan.17/2015  1177118-9-1  1966  Miscellaneous recordings with Ralph Baldwin and Tony Schwartz:
(Part 18 at 5:00)

fish don't know anything about water
translation in art forms
McLuhan wonders what business he is in 
5:42

definition of McLuhan's "media consulting" (the occult) 
8:17

McLuhan admits he can't sell his knowledge to businessmen too easily 
10:56




Jan.17/2015  1177319-3-1  1966  Miscellaneous fragments:
(Part 18 at 13:16)


Cardinal Newman's idea of the "university" (no subjects)
Meister Eckhart's "university of being" 
13:43

print evoked an obsession with the human Past (Hamlet the "revenger" was alienated from the Present) 15:14
Milton's PARADISE LOST was the peak of this trend (the whole of human society became a rearview mirror to look at the Garden of Eden) 
15:30

it reached a parody of itself in the next century with the "graveyard school of poetry", Cromwell, and using the "dead Present" as a rearview mirror 
15:51

ended with the "landscape poetry" of the Romantics (Nature was the mirror for the mind of man, liberated people from History) 
16:10

the "rearview mirror" (going from the unknown to the known - using the mirror on Gorgon - whereas the artist doesn't use a mirror) 
16:37


for the rest of this particular recording, see notes for the first section of the Oct.11/14 broadcast 
17:10


"Today" show with Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters (replay of the first section of the Oct.25/2014 broadcast) 
25:10

ads substitute for the products
McLuhan explains why he is not looking for meaning/conclusions and not being "moralistic" 
26:39

why young people are not goal-oriented
businessmen want to drop out
the meaning of LSD for youth (want to erase/scrub the old private identity/tape) 
29:27

Hugh Downs asks McLuhan if he is optimistic 
29:50

McLuhan recommends Bucky Fuller as a wise "comprehensivist" 
30:57

McLuhan suggests discovery over instruction/stenciling in education and turning the students into research teams 31:23


Jan.17/2015 1177116-3-1  1966  Miscellaneous fragments edited by Tony Schwartz:
(Part 18 at 33:16)

can't visualize on the telephone and feel isolated and alone
the telephone can be used to teach mathematics
"people don't study the media, only the inputs"
reading is a narcotic for most people
print created technologically the "Public" vs. "mass man"
McLuhan says he supports reading books because he's a professor of literature 
36:20

we're stressing dialogue/probing now ("non-literary procedure" started by Baudelaire and Symbolism) vs. packaging
36:33

Cezanne started new post-visual painting at the same time as Baudrillard 
37:20

educational system has been limited to the visual sense and is therefore obsolete
"we now glorify the unconscious, unawareness, and the instinctive life" 
38:21

the interviewer says McLuhan DOES have a point of view 
38:35

the man in a space capsule does not have a point of view but has many rapidly changing points of view 
39:14

McLuhan explains his "do-it-yourself" kit and the interviewer becomes frightened 
39:33

the interviewer accuses McLuhan of being a "liberator" (McLuhan responds by saying, "at the present time") 
40:36

today one can't make connections between events (the telegraph creates an environment, not a story) 
41:35

the interviewer reads some GREAT quotations by McLuhan and McLuhan responds by saying they are not correct ("that's mere matching") 
42:26

the interviewer asks whether McLuhan is part of the tradition of the prankster ("playing Puck") 
43:14

"visual rationality" is explained 
43:39

McLuhan says "I really don't have any strong feelings about this because it's a situation that will tend to correct itself in time, but there's a lot of waste in the meanwhile" 
44:26

the FIGURE of reading and writing as a skill among the other CLICHE technologies 
44:37

today we have to understand the grammars of many media... people use environments they have no knowledge of the processes that make them nor of the means to express themselves through them 
44:55

"Norman McLaren makes a tremendous break with ordinary film by painting directly on to the film making the audience the screen instead of the camera eye - the child feels masterful doing this making a world that doesn't correspond to some other world (like the photograph) as the composer does working with sound, making a melody" 
45:23

"this is the largest switch-over - from matching to making... in the whole history of education" 
46:00

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