Chapter Three: How media technologies shape perception and self; Or, What is information?

10) 2/25 Introduction to media ecology

• 1968 Playboy Interview with Marshall McLuhan

• How Television Works



11) 2/27 Narcissus narcosis

• Handout on Mcluhan’s theory of art

12) 3/3 The concept of “progress”

• Learning from Ladakh, film screening.

• John Zerzan, “Running on Emptiness: The Failure of Symbolic Thought”

13) 3/5 Natural information and pre-literate experience

• Albert Borgmann, Holding On to Reality

Spring break

14) 3/17 Cultural meaning and the sociological imagination

• Holding On to Reality cont.

15) 3/19 Technological information

• Holding On to Reality cont.

16) 3/24 Narcissus narcosis project due

• Holding On to Reality cont.