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--- On Wed, 2/10/10, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote:
From: david buchanan <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [MD] Media As Epistemology and what it means for Truth
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 10:58 AM
Okay, if the medium is the message and I consume radio, television, magazines,
newspapers, and books through the internet then what's the message? Does a
stupid thing suddenly become brilliant when it takes a different shape or vice
versa? I'm not entirely kidding. The borders between the various media are
getting blurrier every day and personally the medium doesn't matter to me. It's
like a window. I don't look at it so much as through it. Or a drink. It's nice
to have a proper glass but as long as it's clean who cares what kind of cup it
is? I don't know scholars make a big deal out of such things but I just don't
see it. I don't think it's a crazy idea or anything but it does seem a bit
overplayed and out of proportion. This is essentially a Marxist idea, by the
way. This basic notion that the material means of production will always
determine the shape of culture is a common assumption among Marxist cultural
critics. That assumption or premise
practically defines what a Marxist critic is. I don't know what Postman's
background is but it sure wouldn't surprise.
There's my 2.0 cents.
>> From Paco:
I think the Marxist tenet is this: The economic base, also called relations of
production or property relations, determines superstructurality of elements of
culture and politics that it wants for itself, to justify/legitimize it. It
does not determine the whole of culture and politics. It is superstructural
culture and politics on the base. The base is not the forces of production.
Forces of production as base is revisionism (thus, China, for example). Thus
there will be elements of culture that are against the given relations of
production. Capitalist relations of production do not determine socialist
culture. Socialist culture exposes and opposes low quality capitalist economic
base or relations of production.
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