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past as content of the future

a cultural schematic...

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Sean Monahan
Jan 15, 2021
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The medium does things to people and they always completely unaware of this. They don’t really notice the new medium that is ruffing them up. They think of the old medium because the old medium is always the content of the new medium. As movies tend to be the content of TV and as books used to be the content, novels used to be the content of movies. So …

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