There was a great report on www.kpfa.org yesterday mid day,
titled "Against the Grain" on media networking which you
would probably enjoy because it depicts a new social movement,
one that Marshall McKluhen predicted in the late 60s.
Jeffrey Juris argues that network-based technologies have influenced the
logic and values of radical social movements. And Dorothy Kidd
describes the global movement to democratize communications.
Check out Marshall had to say, and share the truth process
with Namasteezy Records if you are feeling the views....
The Label shares art and projects that uplift & heal,
all mediums are shared AS the message and were
created in the inspiration of what Marshall pointed
out could be done about the global situation.
In the early 1960s, McLuhan wrote that the visual, individualistic print
culture would soon be brought to an end by what he called
"electronic interdependence": when electronic media replace
visual culture with aural/oral culture. In this new age, humankind
will move from individualism and fragmentation to a collective identity,
with a "tribal base." McLuhan's coinage for this new social organization
is the global village, a term which has predominantly negative
connotations in The Gutenberg Galaxy (a fact lost on its later popularizers):
Instead of tending towards a vast Alexandrian library the world has become
a computer, an electronic brain, exactly as an infantile piece of science fiction.
And as our senses have gone outside us, Big Brother goes inside.
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