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Tom Wolfe is profiled in an 11,500-word article in Vanity Fair praising his career as a writer known for his insightful journalism and novels observing social trends. The article discusses how a 1965 article Wolfe wrote brought Marshall McLuhan widespread attention by delving into McLuhan's analyses of communication and society. Fifty years later, Wolfe introduces an online archive project that has collected McLuhan's interviews and lectures, allowing the 20th century thinker to speak for himself and further demonstrating his dictum that "The Medium is the Message," which Wolfe helps elucidate.
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![widely available to scholars and public alike. It's The 'Marshall
McLuhan Speaks' Special Collection, created by producers
Stephanie McLuhan and Sandy Pearl, in collaboration with the
Open Education Consortium -- a global network of academic
bodies that in this country includes Harvard University, MIT and
the Smithsonian Institution.
Rightly enough, Wolfe sits at the head of this uniquely
comprehensive archive, in an illuminating video introduction
that he wrote and narrated, on- and off-camera.
Watch Wolfe on McLuhan here (with the added presence of
Woody Allen):
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Producers McLuhan (herself a veteran TV journalist and also
daughter of Marshall) and Pearl (an award-winning news and
arts producer/writer) have pulled together scores of interviews,
lectures, panel discussions and other forms of utterance -- all
recorded in the analog age, in the three decades before Marshall
McLuhan died in 1980.
The Special Collection's importance undeniably lies in the fact,
which its title emphasizes, that here the 20th century sage is,
gratifyingly, speaking for himself.
But I for one am grateful we have Wolfe's words as well,
assessing -- as clearly as he does -- what McLuhan was pointing
out:
Nothing people can use electronic media for -- no message that
anyone, no matter how powerful or persuasive, can deliver --
even begins to compare with what new media have done to
mankind, neurologically and temperamentally.
That is how Wolfe so carefully elucidates McLuhan's
fundamental dictum, "The Medium is the Message" -- which is
now more than ever being demonstrated every minute all across
the word-wide web and in every smartphone.
****
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This document provides context about the book "Liberalism in the Classical Tradition" by Ludwig von Mises. It includes a preface from 1985 providing background on Mises and explaining how the meaning of the term "liberalism" has changed. It also includes a foreword praising the book for addressing practical implications of a free society that critics of capitalism often fail to discuss. The document gives biographical details of Mises and his work to establish him as a leading figure in the Austrian school of economics.
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The document summarizes language changes that occurred in the 1950s due to various social, political, economic, and technological factors. New words entered the lexicon related to nuclear weapons ("nukes"), space exploration ("cosmonauts"), computers ("bootstrap"), medicine ("bypasses"), and transportation ("helicopter"). Youth subcultures emerged ("Beatniks") amid social changes, and television and new foods became more common. Overall, the 1950s saw significant linguistic innovation driven by events like the Cold War and new scientific discoveries during this transformative decade.
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questions 1: This week, we look at several examples of early modernist* art such as post-impressionism*, cubism*, fauvism*, futurism*, and expressionism*. Let's discuss the relationships between these aesthetic categories and the sociopolitical* climate of the period, always (as we did for Rubens) describing and analyzing specific examples of these categories, as well as (as we did last week for romanticism to impressionism) questioning whether such categories express the wishes of the artists involved and/or if such terms have stuck with critics and scholars.
How did the sociopolitical climate of the time period, including especially the First World War, influence artists? As always, your posts need to meet multiple rubrics to get quality-points (one rubric means one point, up to four). Comparison with present-day examples are always welcome as added ornament, but the meat and potatoes of your point-getting posts will need to focus on the years between 1904 and 1939 (just before WWII).
Which artistic and philosophical sub-cultures (circles of friends, enemies, and patrons) were among the most influential in this period, and which works caused the most adoration and debate, then and now?
question 2:As it's Black History Month (when is white history month? Every other one?) and you may have seen that African-American singing was my Ph.D. topic and scholarly primary-area within music history, I'd like to invite everyone to consider the particular presence of continued "race" inequities in early-20th-century arts and politics over the globe (as we discussed slaves in Greece and the portrayal of lower classes in the realist strain within romanticism). In the U.S. what used to be referred to as "the black problem" has been particularly thorny.
Through most of the 19th century, by far the most-popular multimedia performance-form (music, dance, jokes, costumes) in the U.S. (with some popularity in England and elsewhere) was blackface minstrelsy, where both white and some black performers (mostly male) "blacked up" using burnt-cork and oil over their faces, while exaggerating and reddening their lips, wearing white gloves, etc., a disgusting but fascinating deep strain at the root of American popular culture.
But this thread is about roughly 1890-1939; what are some ways that African-Americans began to develop their own subcultures both in the South (where the vast majority of African-Americans lived in earlier, slave years) but also growing in the North (particularly business and industrial centers). What are some artistic, political, and philosophical sub-cultures (circles of friends, enemies, and patrons) under cultivation in these years, and what are some leading products of these circles? (For instance, were the patrons of most black art also black, and how did differences of class and ethnicity tend to affect the terms of this patronage?)
As always, be specific and avoid clichés, triteness, and hyperbole/exaggeration. Consider also the emergen ...
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- 1. The November issue of Vanity Fair carries an in-depth and mostly laudatory portrait of that legendary giant of an American writer, Tom Wolfe. It's an 11,500-word piece by Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball, Flash Boys and other impressively crafted investigative works. The article, How Tom Wolfe Became ... Tom Wolfe, will have strong resonance for anyone familiar with the vast Wolfe oeuvre, particularly the incisive, compelling journalism over decades as well as the more recent hefty novels of acute social observation. For me, I found myself reflecting on a particular achievement of Wolfe's that shouldn't ever be overlooked. Wolfe was responsible for, among countless un-put-downable articles, the single most stirring clarion call that brought Marshall McLuhan to broad public attention. It came in 1965, carried in the Sunday magazine section of the old New York Herald Tribune, which later survived as New York magazine. It's fair to say that with it Wolfe started the process that turned a hitherto largely unknown Canadian academic (what Wolfe himself called more precisely "a word-of- mouth celebrity") into a worldwide byword for the media revolution that has overtaken our culture over the past half- century. That article's headline was prophetic as well as provocative: What if he ... is Right? -- and it delved eagerly, thoroughly and enlighteningly into McLuhan's original and sometimes gnomic analyses of communications and society. Fifty years later, Wolfe now features in an invaluable online video resource on McLuhan that has, also this month, become
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