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Proceedings of the 30th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, 2007, 2000
On McLuhan's birthday July 21 (2017) he got a Google Doodle: The doodle images symbolize the acou... more On McLuhan's birthday July 21 (2017) he got a Google Doodle: The doodle images symbolize the acoustic age, the written age, mass production (Fordism), McLuhan television appearance, the Global Village and the electronic age.
it is no longer feasible in decision-making to exercise delegated authority, but only the authori... more it is no longer feasible in decision-making to exercise delegated authority, but only the authority of knowledge. (Technology, the Media, and Culture, 1960) 1 it was his mastery of the art process in terms of the stages of apprehension that enabled Joyce to install himself in the centre of the creative process. Whether it appears as mere individual sensation, as collective hope or phobia, as national myth-making or cultural norm-functioning, there is Joyce with cocked ear, eye and nose at the the centre of the action. He saw that the change of our time ('wait till Finnegan wakes !') was occurring as a result of the shift from superimposed myth to awareness of the character of the creative process itself. Here was the only hope for a world culture which would incorporate all previous achievements. The very process of human communication, Joyce saw, would afford the natural base for all the future operations and strategies of culture. Towards this vivisectional spectacle of the human community in action we have been led ever more swiftly in recent decades by increasing self-consciousness of the processes and effects of the various media of communication. Our knowledge of the modes of consciousness in pre-literate societies together with our sense of the processes of culture formation in many literate societies past and present, have sharpened our perceptions and led to wide agreement that communication itself is the common ground for the study of individual and society. To this study Joyce contributed not just awareness but demonstration of individual cognition as the analogue and matrix of all communal actions, political, linguistic and sacramental. (Notes on the Media as Art Forms 1954) No sense operates in isolation. Vision is partly structured by ocular and bodily movement; hearing, by visual and kinesthetic experience. (The Effect of the Printed Book on Language in the 16th Century, 1957)
Jung's long commentary on Schiller's Aesthetic Letters (in CW6, 67-135) is valuable for an assess... more Jung's long commentary on Schiller's Aesthetic Letters (in CW6, 67-135) is valuable for an assessment of both -and of their relative contributions to an understanding of the drame intérieur.
In the beginning was the Word: a spoken word, not the visual one of literate man. 1
The central thesis of the 1944 'Long Sleep' essay was carried forward to Lindberg's book a decade... more The central thesis of the 1944 'Long Sleep' essay was carried forward to Lindberg's book a decade in the future and even to his 1964 Hammarskjöld article :
Jung identifies Schiller as a representative of "the psychology of the introverted thinking type"... more Jung identifies Schiller as a representative of "the psychology of the introverted thinking type". He then asks the reader: to remember that the hypothesis I have just advanced underlies my whole argument. This reminder seems to me necessary because Schiller approaches the problem from the angle of his own inner experience. In view of the fact that another psychology, i.e., another type of man, would have approached the same problem in quite another way, the very broad formulation which Schiller gives might be regarded as a subjective bias or an ill-considered generalization. But such a judgment would be incorrect, since there actually is a large class of men for whom the problem of the separated functions [in this configuration] is exactly the same as it was for Schiller. If, therefore, in the ensuing argument I occasionally emphasize Schiller's one-sidedness and subjectivity, I do not wish to detract from the importance and general validity of the problem he has raised, but rather to make room for other formulations. Such criticisms as I may occasionally offer have more the character of a transcription into another language which will relieve Schiller's formulation of its subjective limitations. (CW6, 69) Several points in this passage are of great importance.
Seemingly with no connection between each other, McLuhan and Bohm set out an astonishing number o... more Seemingly with no connection between each other, McLuhan and Bohm set out an astonishing number of parallel thoughts. 1
Proceedings of the 30th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, 2007, 2000
On McLuhan's birthday July 21 (2017) he got a Google Doodle: The doodle images symbolize the acou... more On McLuhan's birthday July 21 (2017) he got a Google Doodle: The doodle images symbolize the acoustic age, the written age, mass production (Fordism), McLuhan television appearance, the Global Village and the electronic age.
it is no longer feasible in decision-making to exercise delegated authority, but only the authori... more it is no longer feasible in decision-making to exercise delegated authority, but only the authority of knowledge. (Technology, the Media, and Culture, 1960) 1 it was his mastery of the art process in terms of the stages of apprehension that enabled Joyce to install himself in the centre of the creative process. Whether it appears as mere individual sensation, as collective hope or phobia, as national myth-making or cultural norm-functioning, there is Joyce with cocked ear, eye and nose at the the centre of the action. He saw that the change of our time ('wait till Finnegan wakes !') was occurring as a result of the shift from superimposed myth to awareness of the character of the creative process itself. Here was the only hope for a world culture which would incorporate all previous achievements. The very process of human communication, Joyce saw, would afford the natural base for all the future operations and strategies of culture. Towards this vivisectional spectacle of the human community in action we have been led ever more swiftly in recent decades by increasing self-consciousness of the processes and effects of the various media of communication. Our knowledge of the modes of consciousness in pre-literate societies together with our sense of the processes of culture formation in many literate societies past and present, have sharpened our perceptions and led to wide agreement that communication itself is the common ground for the study of individual and society. To this study Joyce contributed not just awareness but demonstration of individual cognition as the analogue and matrix of all communal actions, political, linguistic and sacramental. (Notes on the Media as Art Forms 1954) No sense operates in isolation. Vision is partly structured by ocular and bodily movement; hearing, by visual and kinesthetic experience. (The Effect of the Printed Book on Language in the 16th Century, 1957)
Jung's long commentary on Schiller's Aesthetic Letters (in CW6, 67-135) is valuable for an assess... more Jung's long commentary on Schiller's Aesthetic Letters (in CW6, 67-135) is valuable for an assessment of both -and of their relative contributions to an understanding of the drame intérieur.
In the beginning was the Word: a spoken word, not the visual one of literate man. 1
The central thesis of the 1944 'Long Sleep' essay was carried forward to Lindberg's book a decade... more The central thesis of the 1944 'Long Sleep' essay was carried forward to Lindberg's book a decade in the future and even to his 1964 Hammarskjöld article :
Jung identifies Schiller as a representative of "the psychology of the introverted thinking type"... more Jung identifies Schiller as a representative of "the psychology of the introverted thinking type". He then asks the reader: to remember that the hypothesis I have just advanced underlies my whole argument. This reminder seems to me necessary because Schiller approaches the problem from the angle of his own inner experience. In view of the fact that another psychology, i.e., another type of man, would have approached the same problem in quite another way, the very broad formulation which Schiller gives might be regarded as a subjective bias or an ill-considered generalization. But such a judgment would be incorrect, since there actually is a large class of men for whom the problem of the separated functions [in this configuration] is exactly the same as it was for Schiller. If, therefore, in the ensuing argument I occasionally emphasize Schiller's one-sidedness and subjectivity, I do not wish to detract from the importance and general validity of the problem he has raised, but rather to make room for other formulations. Such criticisms as I may occasionally offer have more the character of a transcription into another language which will relieve Schiller's formulation of its subjective limitations. (CW6, 69) Several points in this passage are of great importance.
Seemingly with no connection between each other, McLuhan and Bohm set out an astonishing number o... more Seemingly with no connection between each other, McLuhan and Bohm set out an astonishing number of parallel thoughts. 1