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Andrew McLuhan on Needling The Somnambulists about How We've Never Been Autonomous

Andrew McLuhan on Needling The Somnambulists about How We've Never Been Autonomous

Update: 2025-03-07
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This week on Humans On The Loop I welcome Andrew McLuhan, author, teacher, and Director of The McLuhan Institute, a generational ark for media theory in a world that desperately needs more help understanding the relationships between our tools, our minds, and our society.

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Magick and Enlightenment, with Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford by Weird Studies PodcastNora BatesonGregory BatesonWilliam Irwin ThompsonFrom Nowhere by Eric WargoThe Ascent of Information by Caleb ScharfEverything Everywhere All At OncePresent Shock by Douglas RushkoffUnderstanding Media by Marshall McLuhanThe Interior Landscape by Marshall McLuhanEzra PoundPreface to Plato by Eric HavelockJay-ZT.S. Eliot



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Andrew McLuhan on Needling The Somnambulists about How We've Never Been Autonomous

Andrew McLuhan on Needling The Somnambulists about How We've Never Been Autonomous

Michael Garfield