The new art form of our time is the media themselves, not painting, not movies, not drama, but the media themselves have become the new art forms.... I write cartoons.... I have wanted to write a play, for a long time, on the media. And the media themselves are the avant-garde area of our society. Avant-garde no longer exists in painting and music and poetry, it's in the media themselves. Not in the programs. Avante-garde is not in hockey, not in baseball or any of these entertainments. It's in the media themselves." -- Marshall McLuhan, Forces Magazine, Hydro-Quebec, No.22, p.68, 1973.
2 comments:
"J. Pare: L. B. Johnson was a dropout in a sense, but it is difficult to conceive of John Kennedy as a dropout?
McLuhan: He really dropped out. You know why: he was killed by the Establishment. He was executed. He was dangerous to them.
J. Pare: Because he did not want to drop out, he wanted to change things like his brother?
McLuhan: Yes. These men were executed by the Establishment. And they will be anytime they try anything like that."
Forces Magazine,
Hydro-Quebec, No.22, p.67, 1973
" Finnegans Wake of James Joyce is a verbal universe in which press,movie ,radio, TV merge with the languages of the world to form a Feenichts Playhouse of Metamorphoses."
- MM, CounterBlast page 115
Post a Comment