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Title: The Book of Probes by Marshall McLuhan, David Carson, Eric McLuhan, William Kuhns, Mo Cohen, Terrance Gordon ISBN: 1-58423-056-8 Publisher: Gingko Press Pub. Date: November, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Keep Probing for McLuhan
Comment: Reading the advance hype for this book got me very excited. At last! I can understand Marshall McLuhan! Don't get me wrong. It's not that I haven't encountered MM before, but understanding him eluded me. I had hoped for more deluxe versions of the Quentin Fiore collaborations: War and Peace in the Global Village and The Medium is the Massage. But instead of timely, interesting photos, David Carson resorts to typography to frame pithy little McLuhan epigrams. Like those other two books, you at least get your shots of MM one line at a time, and some of the lines are very memorable indeed. Yes, I'm convinced Marshall McLuhan was a prophet (small "P" or maybe big "p"), and that everything he said has already happened. We live in a global village full of hot and cool media; the medium is the message. How obvious it all seems. Reading this book is ancient history. It's already happened. I just wish I could understand it better. Don't bother with the DaVinci code. Crack the McLuhan code and we will all know what's going on. This book reinvents "coffee table books"--it's an 8 inch square two inches thick--so it goes well on little coffee tables from Ikea. I see why they didn't use photos--Corbis owns them all, unlike the public domain galleries in the two earlier books cited (which dazzlingly show more than they tell). Someone new to McLuhan, finding Probes on the tiny coffee table, would probably drink it in, like someone quaffing a particularly good drink. But having finished the tumbler, they'd likely wander off to find the hostess and a refill, asking where she learned her mixology. Those reading, or rather encountering, Probes will also be left inquiring about McLuhan, and probing for more understanding.
Rating: 1
Summary: Carson Schmarson
Comment: Don't send anything to David Carson that you need back, he likes to "lose" things.
Rating: 1
Summary: who really designed this book
Comment: The design in this book is great and was obviously not really designed by David Carson at ALL.
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Title: Trek: David Carson, Recent Werk by David Carson, Eric McLuhan, Drew Kampion, Jamie Brisick ISBN: 1584230460 Publisher: Gingko Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion by Marshall McLuhan, Eric McLuhan, Jacek Szklarek, Jacek Szlarek ISBN: 0773760318 Publisher: Gingko Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man by Marshall McLuhan, Philip B. Meggs ISBN: 1584230509 Publisher: Gingko Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Fotografiks - David Carson by David Carson, Philip Meggs, Philip B. Meggs ISBN: 1584230045 Publisher: Gingko Press Pub. Date: 21 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The End of Print by Lewis Blackwell, David Carson ISBN: 0811830241 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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