today on my e-mail ---------- From: Mark Stahlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "MCLUHAN-L : Marshall McLuhan Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:12:07 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [MCLUHAN-L] Origin of the BOOB Tube??
Y'all: What do Wyndham Lewis, Margaret Mead, John Lennon, Bo Gehring and Carol Wilder have in common . . . ?? BOOBS?? Er, no, Nam June Paik . . . and FLUXUS!! http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/10/nyregion/10PROF.html?pagewanted=print&; position=top Arguably the ORIGINATOR of the BOOB TUBE (when he equiped a TOPLESS cellist with a television-set brassiere), Mr. Paik connects all the above . . . and much, much more!! Wyndham Lewis --> C.P. Snow (who constructed "The Two Cultures" as a CHARACTER *assassination* of Lewis) --> John Brockman (who fashioned himself a career promoting the "Third Culture" as a take-off on Snow) --> FLUXUS. Margaret Mead --> Gregory Bateson (who was married to Mead, among other things) --> John Brockman (who began his career as a literary agent working with Bateson) --> FLUXUS John Lennon --> Yoko Ono (who was originally a Paik "groupie" and another Korean/Japanese ARISTOCRAT) --> FLUXUS Bo Gehring --> Paik (he lived with Paik installations and shared space in his "studio") --> FLUXUS Carol Wilder --> Gregory Bateson (she was a Bateson "groupie" and now runs the Canadian Consulate sponsored annual *character* ASSASSINATION "McLuhan Lecture") --> Paul Ryan (who is on Carol's Media Studies Faculty and was a member of) --> FLUXUS Get it?? FLEX --> US!! Mark Stahlman New York City
