Each week, we put together a reading list of the best articles on technology, new media, and religion from across the web. Here’s what we’re reading this week. Happy Thanksgiving! Redeeming Technologies – The New Atlantis “For the secularization hypothesis, the evidence of history is decidedly mixed. It is, in spite of Nietzsche’s astute observation, […]
Archives for November 2013
The E-Book and the Surveillance Society
When I embarked on a reading of Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media, in the spring of 2013, a commercial e-book version was not yet available. I located a bootleg PDF copy online somewhere. It was an interesting artifact, not well formatted but possibly useful for copying passages to paste into another document. I could have read the […]
Reading List: November 18
Each week, we put together a reading list of the best articles on technology, new media, and religion from across the web. Here’s what we’re reading this week: On the xkcd Philosophy of Technology, Briefly – The Frailest Thing “Similarly, pointing out that human beings have always used technology is perhaps the least interesting observation […]
Reading List: November 11
Each week, we put together a reading list of the best articles on technology, new media, and religion from across the web. Here’s what we’re reading this week: The Experience Design of Server Farms – Medium “Standing among the Internet Archive’s pews, Kahle talks about trust. He points out the extreme implicit trust that users […]
McLuhan receives McLuhan Award
We are pleased to announce that editorial board member Eric McLuhan was awarded with the third annual Medium and the Light award on October 23rd. During a celebration at St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto, over 50 scholars gathered at the old coach house where Eric’s father Marshall McLuhan had his office and […]
The Ghost(s) of Marshall McLuhan
Here at Second Nature we’re celebrating Halloween and All Saints’ Day by channeling the ghost(s) of Marshall McLuhan. How you ask? We’re reading the only e-mail Neil Postman ever sent in which he poses as the ghost of Marshall McLuhan: This is the Ghost of Marshall McLuhan speaking to you. I don’t have to tell you […]
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