Joe Nolan (@mightyjoenolan): "These (especially number 4) connect back to my recent notes about how artists can examine one cultural category (media) by exploring another (French Symbolist poetry). This technique can be applied to any practice or industry once you start thinking like an artist."

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These (especially number 4) connect back to my recent notes about how artists can examine one cultural category (media) by exploring another (French Symbolist poetry).

This technique can be applied to any practice or industry once you start thinking like an artist.

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May 23

Here is a list of ten Symbolist techniques that Marshall McLuhan frequently deployed, drawn from his deep engagement with French Symbolists (especially Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé) and James Joyce.

McLuhan viewed his media analysis as “applied Joyce” and drew heavily on Symbolist poetics to probe technological and cultural effects. He t…

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