newMedia(now&&then)
Sunday, February 20, 2005
IF Marshall McLuhan THEN William Gibson ??
watching William Gibson guesting on TechTV's ScreenSavers, i am considering a comment that Colin made in my Prehystories of New Media course on the first day. i was discussing McLuhan in the context of the development of New Media as a field of art theorypraxis, technosocial developments + countercultural struggles. i suggested that McLuhan's celebrity status originating from his academic work was in the 1960's unlike any one's currently. in describing McLuhan's self-reflexive + critical appearances on television talk shows + popular mass mediated forms, i mentioned that no one was currently in a similar position of being in + of the technosocial moment. Colin suggested that Gibson was in a similar position of being in + of while reflecting on new media. Colin gave me the ScreenSavers episode that features Gibson as [guest/interviewee].
Gibson, in this interview @ least, speaks from the position of [writer/author] not so much as a cultural critic. although his works, esp Pattern Recognition, which he is selling on this episode, often operate as [creative/analytical] new media works they are not explicitly theoretical or academic works as were McLuhan's. i still need to watch No Maps for These Territories, which Colin also gave me to watch in order to explore this McLuhan ++ Gibson connectivity more...
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