1971: MARSHALL MCLUHAN on ADVERTISING | 24 Hours | Writers and Wordsmiths | BBC Archive

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"We are completely immune to advertising, do you know why? It's all good news." - Marshall McLuhan
Kenneth Allsop interviews the world's leading media theorist, Marshall McLuhan - the author of The Mechanical Bride, The Gutenberg Galaxy, Understanding Media, and The Medium is The Massage - about his theories of mass communication.
Originally broadcast 19 August, 1971.
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  • @robertjeffery8045
    @robertjeffery80458 ай бұрын

    Imagine how much preparation you'd have to do to interview Marshall McLuhan!

  • @FPOAK

    @FPOAK

    6 ай бұрын

    Most people know nothing of his work

  • @eloisaklein1545
    @eloisaklein15459 ай бұрын

    I love this: “I use precepts and not concepts”. I’m replacing a colleague of mine in this under grad course and I opened the material for the class and I found it was a collection of useless & random concepts. I erased it all and started from ground zero, using the kind of work that McLuhan was doing (and this is why I’m here btw). Because this kind of work helps us and the students to THINK about life instead of classifying things in reality.

  • @gerg64

    @gerg64

    6 ай бұрын

    what do you mean by this? how can I learn how to teach like McLuhan?

  • @eloisaklein1545

    @eloisaklein1545

    6 ай бұрын

    I guess you did not read what I wrote and do not have to teach you how to read, I am not your teacher@@gerg64

  • @christiansather8438

    @christiansather8438

    3 ай бұрын

    Percepts*

  • @christiansather8438

    @christiansather8438

    3 ай бұрын

    @@gerg64Most people don’t want to truly perceive and would rather misunderstand everything via concepts handed to them from institutions. It can be very dangerous to be perceptive. It takes immense courage and responsibility. It’s almost akin to notions of enlightenment in the East, that is, perceiving reality and society as it is and not as it’s sold to you.

  • @MCLUHANVIDEOS

    @MCLUHANVIDEOS

    2 ай бұрын

    Whatever twice you wanna learn, UFFIE IN ACCOUNTING kzread.info/dash/bejne/m3qn2NehdJqsopM.html

  • @aek12
    @aek126 ай бұрын

    McLuhan, The Great Master of Higher Perceptive Thought.

  • @PeterCooperUK
    @PeterCooperUK Жыл бұрын

    Wow, this was pretty interesting. I wonder what he’d have made of the global village we now have

  • @charlotterogerz

    @charlotterogerz

    Жыл бұрын

    07:07 "I never state my preferences because it seems arrogant to me to express a private opinion... In a world in which you live with everybody". Not a lot I suppose.

  • @garyspence2128

    @garyspence2128

    9 ай бұрын

    What he's describing about 'private opinions is 80% of all you tube programs and podcasts...

  • @christiansather8438

    @christiansather8438

    3 ай бұрын

    Well he coined the term global village and then I believe he adjusted the term to Global Audience.

  • @outoforbit00

    @outoforbit00

    25 күн бұрын

    He would say that we are going to implode, a global civil war.

  • @benday1218
    @benday1218 Жыл бұрын

    I'd be amazed if Adam Curtis didn't pick this clip, 'but this was a fantasy...'

  • @NikkiMayLi
    @NikkiMayLi10 ай бұрын

    when you are putting on a public then you have a totally different image of yourself, then when you're all alone...

  • @kaseyines
    @kaseyines3 ай бұрын

    "Cooling is a process and hotting up is merely a target." I forgot this man be spittin!

  • @wolfman6941
    @wolfman6941 Жыл бұрын

    I tried reading his " The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man". I couldn't finish it.

  • @aaronartale

    @aaronartale

    Жыл бұрын

    I bought that book. I haven't read it either but I thought it was great, extremely profound

  • @michaelreid5615
    @michaelreid561515 күн бұрын

    Maybe, he’s most interesting interview, imo

  • @DanDan-hv1fm
    @DanDan-hv1fm Жыл бұрын

    Good fun.

  • @TtableWhey
    @TtableWheyАй бұрын

    "By obsolete I mean that it is more prevalent and abounding than ever. The book has never had it so good. The printed word has never been so big and powerful as now. This means that it is obsolete, yes. Whereas TV is not obsolete and it doesn't have a fraction of the effect of print." "Without a contradiction there can be no polarity". This dude takes great pleasure in stating contradictions and riddles. He's trying hard not to laugh at himself. Yes, Mr McLuhan, black is white, up is down. State anything with authority and a smug, arrogant smirk and nobody can argue with you. You have the right to remain silent. Well done for making a career out of semantics.

  • @outoforbit00

    @outoforbit00

    25 күн бұрын

    McLuhan did say in this clip that personal opinions were arrogant and as your opinion was insulting, you succeeded in proving his point spectacularly.

  • @TtableWhey

    @TtableWhey

    25 күн бұрын

    @@outoforbit00 That's just your opinion.

  • @outoforbit00

    @outoforbit00

    24 күн бұрын

    @@TtableWhey yes it is, but it's not a personal opinion. It's based of reading your comment.

  • @TtableWhey

    @TtableWhey

    24 күн бұрын

    @@outoforbit00 My opinion isn't personal either. It's metaphysical.

  • @outoforbit00

    @outoforbit00

    24 күн бұрын

    @@TtableWhey wow, McLuhan is possibly the greatest metaphysical thinker of the 20th century, what he said in this clip entirely escaped you!

  • @mjgraycomm
    @mjgraycomm15 күн бұрын

    LOL the questions people asked McLuhan just show how much they really didn't get it.

  • @Ediblspaceships
    @Ediblspaceships10 ай бұрын

    the purpose of studying processes is to avoid hangups and misery ...

  • @megavide0
    @megavide09 ай бұрын

    0:43 "And in the future archaeologists or anthropologists [are going to] study our advertising avidly for signs of an extremely complicated culture that we live in..." 1:45 "In fact most people would not know what the meaning of their possessions was without advertising." // See also: *Marshall McLuhan on the Future of Advertising (1966)* “Do you know that most people read ads about things they already own? They don't read ads to buy things, but to feel reassured that they have already bought the right thing. In other words, they get huge information satisfaction from ads far more than they do from the product itself,” --> kzread.info/dash/bejne/lIKs0Zmfe5CzetY.html

  • @rudyjaxton3519
    @rudyjaxton35197 ай бұрын

    Strange. You’d think a major media outlet would try to keep this stuff under wraps in the interests of the advertisers.

  • @MCLUHANVIDEOS

    @MCLUHANVIDEOS

    2 ай бұрын

    UFFIE IN ACCOUNTING kzread.info/dash/bejne/m3qn2NehdJqsopM.html on MCLUHAN VIDEOS KZread

  • @TinLeadHammer
    @TinLeadHammer Жыл бұрын

    So, people are not affected by ads because they good news, at the same time they are affected by ads because ads push them to buy stuff and feel good for themselves and in front of their friends? Hmm. People do not like watching bad news, but at the same time when they watch bad news they feel good about themselves because what is happening in the news is not happening with them? Hmm. I am trying to find a coherent message in his words and I cannot. The medium is the message.

  • @gregdiprinzio9280

    @gregdiprinzio9280

    11 ай бұрын

    Re: watching bad news: Isn’t it possible to dislike an experience and yet discover in it an aspect of value? I think of the apology, or pity: the awareness one is doing the right thing.

  • @adotheginger

    @adotheginger

    3 ай бұрын

    Look up the "Agenda Setting" and you'll understand what bad news are for; McLuhan was a visionary, not an all-knower; inevitably, some of the things he said are not right; but his "medium is the message" book was spot on

  • @outoforbit00

    @outoforbit00

    25 күн бұрын

    True perception sits in the centre of a paradox, like an oracle, maybe yes, maybe no. The answer is to see in the moment. It's called wisdom.

  • @JeremyHelm
    @JeremyHelm2 ай бұрын

    3:49 4:21 when you can't think anymore you establish an institution

  • @JeremyHelm

    @JeremyHelm

    2 ай бұрын

    4:37 the purpose of studying processes is to avoid hangups

  • @JeremyHelm

    @JeremyHelm

    2 ай бұрын

    7:54 merely a target

  • @arejayseeottawa
    @arejayseeottawa Жыл бұрын

    What the heck?

  • @kamandi1362
    @kamandi1362 Жыл бұрын

    Undisagreeable = agreeable. 😂

  • @atmakali9599
    @atmakali9599 Жыл бұрын

    Hyperbolic

  • @latequilera22
    @latequilera222 ай бұрын

    whos here because of The Sopranos?

  • @Dondillilochevrolet
    @Dondillilochevrolet6 ай бұрын

    He was definitely wrong by us people not liking to watch bad news lol, like incredibly wrong “ppl won’t like watching Vietnam” bro that’s all we have now.

  • @MCLUHANVIDEOS

    @MCLUHANVIDEOS

    2 ай бұрын

    UFFIE IN ACCOUNTING kzread.info/dash/bejne/m3qn2NehdJqsopM.html on MCLUHAN VIDEOS KZread

  • @mut8inG
    @mut8inG Жыл бұрын

    UNLISTENABLE, UNSPEAKABLE, worldliness is appropriately dismissible. Period. Few people read any book at all. Being on the public stage is a choice. peace+& -💥🌸

  • @scottl.1568
    @scottl.15689 ай бұрын

    Whut

  • @lbzorz
    @lbzorz Жыл бұрын

    He's too far out for the BBC dude... Awesome.

  • @klnine
    @klnine10 ай бұрын

    Wrong ! It’s now only bad news on TV

  • @NoosaHeads
    @NoosaHeads Жыл бұрын

    The BBC interviewer tried to take over the whole discussion.

  • @lbzorz

    @lbzorz

    Жыл бұрын

    Not on McLuhans level of abstraction and realisation.

  • @bonnetdedouche437
    @bonnetdedouche437 Жыл бұрын

    The names McLuhan...Marshall McLuhan. He looks a bit like the bloke on BBC Archive earlier this week that was flogging gold toilets. Minus the syrup.

  • @martinevensen406

    @martinevensen406

    Жыл бұрын

    He was scientist not toilet-guard

  • @richard84738
    @richard847385 күн бұрын

    This guy sounds smart but I'm not sure he's really saying anything at all. You can tell the interviewer is frustrated with this way he gamifies his responses.

  • @h-uk7702
    @h-uk77026 ай бұрын

    He may be clever but he comes over as a very poor listener, discourteous even.

  • @christiansather8438

    @christiansather8438

    3 ай бұрын

    It’s his territory. He is a bit autistic sometimes. He saw something very clearly, namely the nature of technology/media/extensions of man, and he tried his best to tell the world about it. Largely his ideas were use to do the opposite of what he intended, alas.

  • @MCLUHANVIDEOS

    @MCLUHANVIDEOS

    2 ай бұрын

    Due to respecting the audience's time UFFIE IN ACCOUNTING kzread.info/dash/bejne/m3qn2NehdJqsopM.html

  • @MCLUHANVIDEOS

    @MCLUHANVIDEOS

    2 ай бұрын

    Thee Brit attempts to imitate a printed page McLuhan embodies dialogue

  • @luketaylor9881
    @luketaylor9881 Жыл бұрын

    Not a great communicator, not convinced by his ideas as expressed here

  • @christiansather8438

    @christiansather8438

    3 ай бұрын

    It takes time. You gotta read his books. Gutenberg Galaxy and Understanding Media are an acid trip. You come out totally transformed.

  • @MCLUHANVIDEOS
    @MCLUHANVIDEOS10 ай бұрын

    every single comment here will find this channel interesting, Adam Curtis' style and kzread.info/dash/bejne/a56Lqsuula6Thc4.html channel's style is simply a type of scuze the pun, stylistic 'determinism' one attempts to remove the narrative crutch providing a placebo of general comprehension, rather than vomiting commercial understanding. you will not understand until you do, at which point a reply won't be attempted by you.

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