In Harmonium

Being in the main the musings of a Symbolic Anthropologist

Is the medium the message?

| January 26, 2010

The Medium is the Massage (no, that isn’t a spelling error), is the name of a rather famous work produced by Marshall McLuhan and Quenten Fiore in 1967.  It is, in many ways, a popularizing, as well as exemplar, version of McLuhan’s  major research focus on how media influences messages or, in it’s better known [...]

“Renaissance networks”: social media and reciprocity systems

| July 29, 2008

“I guess the larger meta question is, What is the role of the know-it-all generalist in today’s specialized world where there is really no more room for Rennaissance men?” Depends who you ask. I think the concept of “Rennaissance men” has evolved into “Rennaissance networks”, they range from the generalists (like Matt), the interested citizens [...]