Whereas McLuhan said that “the medium is the message,” for all intents and purposes, Arendt here is saying that the means is the message!Īrendt goes on to note that traditionally, violence has been seen as an instrument of power, but that technological advances in warfare (she mentions the possibility of robot soldiers!), weapons of mass destruction (especially biological weapons that can be used by small groups rather than large states), and guerrilla warfare (and what we now call terrorism) have led to a reversal of that relationship. …. what she’s saying here is very much in keeping with the intellectual tradition known as media ecology, the type of approach associated with scholars such as Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong, and Neil Postman. Follow the link at bottom to read the full essay….AlexK
It was published as a guest blog by the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics & Humanities ( ).
These are a couple of excerpts from Lance Strate’s thoughtful essay on Hannah Arendt, which quotes liberally from the work of Marshall McLuhan.
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