Recovered from 1/4" reel-to-reel recording, Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker, and guests in the room (including Ms. Sapienza—sp.?—from Leuven university, Derrick de Kerckhove—"a Belgian, among other things,"—Davinder Lamba and Diana Lee Smith from Nairobi, a 'Mr. Richards,' and an unnamed woman from Michigan) laugh and discuss a range of subjects.
Topics mentioned include: coincidence, lighting, (alphabetic) literacy among the deaf, many, many jokes, jokes as grievance, attention spans shrinking via TV, consciousness, schizophrenia, J.C. Carothers, jobs vs roles, 'prisons, schools, and asylums,' figure and ground, sputnik and the end of nature, birth of ecology, electricity as a peculiar substance, the total environment of information, emotional infantilism, children before/after television (referencing Eric and Michael McLuhan), Adam Smith and homeostasis, ecology and cycles, energy consumption, nannies and Rolls Royces, the madness of the sphere, R. Buckminster Fuller, brutalist architecture as 'Computer Gothic.'
Topics mentioned include: coincidence, lighting, (alphabetic) literacy among the deaf, many, many jokes, jokes as grievance, attention spans shrinking via TV, consciousness, schizophrenia, J.C. Carothers, jobs vs roles, 'prisons, schools, and asylums,' figure and ground, sputnik and the end of nature, birth of ecology, electricity as a peculiar substance, the total environment of information, emotional infantilism, children before/after television (referencing Eric and Michael McLuhan), Adam Smith and homeostasis, ecology and cycles, energy consumption, nannies and Rolls Royces, the madness of the sphere, R. Buckminster Fuller, brutalist architecture as 'Computer Gothic.'
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