A review by kinetica
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan

3.0

I only read 1/3 of this book but I'm marking it as READ anyway because of all the time I spent on it! I wanted to read "The Medium Is the Message" and kept going--reading with someone helped a lot. ,We talked at least an hour or two for every chapter reading 11 chapters in total. His writing is annoying. frustrating? He uses so many metaphors, seems about to set something up and then not finish it or moves in to another idea... I'm not finding it useful to keep reading at this point. It was interesting to think about alongside other essays on media that I read recently. Questions about how we see the world and how that vision is shaped by the media we consume, how technology changes what we think is possible still feel relevant.