jenmcgee 's review for:

Галактика Гутенберга. Становление человека печатающего by Marshall McLuhan, Маршалл Маклюэн

3.0

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Either completely brilliant or total hogwash, I'm not qualified to say. Sometimes McLuhan sounds like he's simply wandered off on some flight of fancy, and his tendency to being in Shakespeare, Milton, or Blake as proof of his assertions ("Here in King Lear you can see how Shakespeare was discussing the ways in which print liquifies our sense of geographical and personal boundaries!") is baffling at times. But for all the fluidity and scatteredness of his style, there's no doubting he's expressing some very interesting things. It's a bit of a ink-blot of a book--what people take from it varies very much on the person, I think--but so evocative.