War and Peace in The Global Village is a collage of images and text that sharply illustrates the effects of electronic media and new technology on man. Marshall McLuhan wrote this book thirty years ago and following its publication predicted that the forthcoming information age would be "a transitional era of profound pain and tragic identity quest." Marshall McLuhan illustrates the fact that all social changes are caused by introduction of new technologies. He interprets these new technologies as extensions or "self ...
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War and Peace in The Global Village is a collage of images and text that sharply illustrates the effects of electronic media and new technology on man. Marshall McLuhan wrote this book thirty years ago and following its publication predicted that the forthcoming information age would be "a transitional era of profound pain and tragic identity quest." Marshall McLuhan illustrates the fact that all social changes are caused by introduction of new technologies. He interprets these new technologies as extensions or "self-amputations of our own being," because technologies extend bodily reach. McLuhan's ideas and observations seem disturbingly accurate and clearly applicable to the world in which we live. War and Peace in the Global Village is a meditation on accelerating innovations leading to identity loss and war.
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New. 1989 Stated First Touchstone Edition Paperback, w/full number line. As new, mint condition. From The Civil War Book Shop-As close as your computer; as dependable as old Abe.
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Very Good. First edition thus. Co-ordinated by Jerome Agel. 16mo. 190 [2] pp. Illustrated in black and white. Printed wrappers. Inked number on bottom edge, moderate edgewear, very good. Inscribed on the first leaf: "For Al McGuire from Marshall McLuhan." A collection of "epigrams and pictures, posing the argument that war is an involuntary quest for identity that follows every new technological age, wherein Marshall McLuhan uses James Joyce's *Finnegans Wake* as a major inspiration for this study of war throughout history" (from the introduction). Bantam D5575.
