(UNLOCKED) Dialectics Deep Dive (3b): Marshall McLuhan & the Medium-as-Message
Added 2021-08-25 02:09:41 +0000 UTCUNLOCKED - This is the second half of our third installment of the Dialectics Deep Dive subseries. In this episode, Matthew Furlong joins Breht to discuss the work of Marshall McLuhan and media analysis more broadly; all through the lens of dialectical materialism.
As always, there are tons of (hopefully interesting) detours that our conversations tend to take, so enjoy!
Here is the first half of this episode: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/deep-dive-3a
Check out our first installment of "Dialectics Deep Dive" here: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/dialectics
Check out our second installment here: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/spinoza
Outro Music: "Resonant Body" by Maggie Rogers
Comments
Really deep feedback, and I love your idea at the end there about a roundtable! Appreciate you listening and glad you found value in the episode.
Revolutionary Left Radio
2021-08-26 00:04:06 +0000 UTC>It would be really cool to have leftists who work in different media (radio, journalism, print/book writers, social media ppl etc) have a round table discussion reflecting on the strengths and weaknesses of the formats they work in. This is an EXCELLENT idea!! Thank you for this Iyan as well as for the rest of your very insightful commentary here.
Matthew
2021-08-25 20:46:11 +0000 UTCOk getting to the end of the episode, I would really love to hear / participate in an expanded discussion stemming from the tangent on Guattari and Lula - specifically about whether there is a particular medium that is most effective for deep & critical analysis and actual dialogue about complex political issues. I feel very strongly that social media is mainly a propaganda machine (it was the subject of my thesis in college); it will give people a basic surface understanding of an issue and a weakly understood position to take… however, because it is also a medium that so heavily involves our egos, we become intensely emotionally connected to that position. I think about how often, when the political flavour of the month is making its way around Twitter / Instagram, how authoritative and combative people will become, when only a handful have either firsthand experience in the conflict or extensive knowledge beyond maybe reading a 200 word infographic or Twitter thread. I also think it’s largely responsible for some of the excesses of ‘cancel culture’ and its related movements, because it allows people to view a single element of a complex topic or person in a vacuum and ignore all of the nuance surrounding it. Radio isn’t necessarily a perfect alternative, but I do think you do a good job on this show of exploring the complexities of a particular subject, assessing the successes and failures of a person or project (a good example is the two episodes arguing for and against China being ‘socialist’ from last year). It would be really cool to have leftists who work in different media (radio, journalism, print/book writers, social media ppl etc) have a round table discussion reflecting on the strengths and weaknesses of the formats they work in. Anyway, great show!
Foko
2021-08-25 18:57:26 +0000 UTC
