{"id":137,"date":"2016-02-10T18:05:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.info\/km\/?p=137"},"modified":"2016-06-25T18:06:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T14:06:05","slug":"marshall-mcluhan-speech-by-fr-dr-k-m-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/archives\/137","title":{"rendered":"Marshall McLuhan: Speech by Fr. Dr. K. M. George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/joYnrkPC5wc\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Marshall McLuhan: Speech by Fr. Dr. K. M. George<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cMarshall McLuhan has come back to Kottayam\u201d, the land of \u201cKerala Gutenberg.\u201d Rev. Fr. K.M. George started his Sukumar Azhikode Lecture series today at DC Books Auditorium with his simple but insightful talk on McLuhan\u2019s contributions. Prof PP Raveendran chaired the session. Sri KM Venugopal was the discussant. The widely debated dictum of McLuhan, \u201cThe medium is the message\u201d was the focal point of discussion. McLuhan himself explains this saying \u201cthat the personal and socia<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">l consequences of any medium &#8211; that is, of any extension of ourselves &#8211; result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.\u201d Prof Raveendran and Vengopal initiated follow up discussions. Venugopal brought our attention to McLuhan\u2019s observation that \u201cSchizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.\u201d Venu reminded that it is high time we substituted \u2018literacy\u2019 with \u2018creativity\u2019 in our educational mission. He was referring to the logical consequences of Time-space compression.\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>&#8211; K. M. Seethi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall McLuhan: Speech by Fr. Dr. K. M. George &nbsp; \u201cMarshall McLuhan has come back to Kottayam\u201d, the land of \u201cKerala Gutenberg.\u201d Rev. Fr. K.M. George started his Sukumar Azhikode &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speeches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fatherkmgeorge.in\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}