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When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century. This edition of McLuhan's best-known book both enhances its accessibility to a general audience and provides the full critical apparatus necessary for scholars. In Terrence Gordon's own words, "McLuhan is in full flight already in the introduction, challenging us to plunge with him into what he calls 'the creative process of knowing.'" Much to the chagrin of his contemporary critics McLuhan's preference was for a prose style that explored rather than explained. Probes, or aphorisms, were an indispensable tool with which he sought to prompt and prod the reader into an "understanding of how media operates" and to provoke reflection. In the 1960s McLuhan s theories aroused both wrath and admiration. It is intriguing to speculate what he might have to say 40 years later on subjects to which he devoted whole chapters such as Television, The Telephone, Weapons, Housing and Money. Today few would dispute that mass media have indeed decentralized modern living and turned the world into a global village. This critical edition features an appendix that makes available for the first time the core of the research project that spawned the book and individual chapter notes are supported by a glossary of terms, indices of subjects, names, and works cited. There is also a complete bibliography of McLuhan's published works. W. Terrence Gordon is Associate General Editor of the Gingko Press McLuhan publishing program, author of the biography Marshall McLuhan: Escape into Understanding and McLuhan for Beginners. This Reissue Marks The Thirtieth Anniversary (1964-1994) Of Mcluhan's Classic Expose On The State Of The Then Emerging Phenomenon Of Mass Media. Terms And Phrases Such As The Global Village And The Medium Is The Message Are Now Part Of The Lexicon, And Mcluhan's Theories Continue To Challenge Our Sensibilities And Our Assumptions About How And What We Communicate. There Has Been A Notable Resurgence Of Interest In Mcluhan's Work In Recent Years, Fueled By The Internet And Growing Competition And Confluence Among Cable, Telephone, Wireless And Other Telecommunications Technologies, Resulting In New Media Models And Information Ecologies. In A New Introduction To This Edition Of Understanding Media, Harper's Editor Lewis Lapham Reevaluates Mcluhan's Work In The Light Of The Technological As Well As The Political And Social Changes That Have Occurred In The Last Part Of This Century.--from Publisher Description. The Medium Is The Message -- Media Hot And Cold -- Reversal Of The Overheated Medium -- The Gadget Love: Narcissus As Narcosis -- Hybrid Energy: Les Liaisons Dangereuses -- Media As Translators -- Challenge And Collapse: The Nemesis Of Creativity -- The Spoken Word: Flower Of Evil? -- The Written Word: An Eye For An Ear -- Roads And Paper Routes -- Number: Profile Of The Crowd -- Clothing: Our Extended Skin -- Housing: New Look And New Outlook -- Money: The Poor Man's Credit Card -- Clocks: The Scent Of Time -- The Print: How To Dig It -- Comics: Mad Vestibule To Tv -- The Printed Work: Architect Of Nationalism -- Wheel, Bicycle, And Airplane -- The Photograph: The Brothel-without-walls -- Press: Government By News Leak -- Motorcar: The Mechanical Bride -- Ads: Keeping Upset With The Joneses -- Games: The Extensions Of Man -- Telegraph: The Social Horomone -- The Typewriter: Into The Age Of The Iron Whim -- The Telephone: Sounding Brass Or Tinkling Symbol? -- The Phonograph: The Toy That Shrank The National Chest -- Movies: The Reel World -- Radio: The Tribal Drum -- Television: The Timid Giant -- Weapons: War Of The Icons -- Automation: Learning A Living -- Appendix. Marshall Mcluhan ; Edited By W. Terrence Gordon. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 569-592) And Indexes. The author examines all types of communication including photographs, ads, games, television, radio, telephone, comics, numbers, money, clothing, movies, recordings, housing, and weapons.