RT @nick_routledge: @jamespoulos McLuhan was clear on that point: "If technology creates environments that brain-wash man, artists create anti-environments that heighten consciousness." - M. McLuhan, review of 'Cyborg: Evolution of the Superman', 1965.
@lukeburgis Admittedly a McLuhan-made thug, moi: "...a certain anti-social power." Says Wiki: "When we say, please don’t take this personally, we look to Menippean satire..." Blessings, as always.
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Excerpt from tweet thread here: Menippean satire is a form of satire characterized by attacking mental attitudes rather than specific individuals; critique of the myths inherited from traditional culture, a rhapsodic nature, a fragmented narrative, the combination of many different targets, & the rapid… 3/ ...moving between styles & points of view. Typical mental attitudes attacked & ridiculed by Menippean satires are "pedants, bigots, cranks, parvenus, virtuosi, enthusiasts, rapacious & incompetent professional men of all kinds," which are treated as diseases of the intellect. 4/ ...Apuleius, Rabelais, Swift, Voltaire, Blake, Huxley, Eggers, and Marshall McLuhan: “Most of my writing is Menippean satire, presenting the actual surface of the world we live in as a ludicrous image.” Wiki: “Elements of Menippean satire have been pointed out in the Gospels.”