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Marshall would have loved it. Please celebrate McLuhan’s 100th birthday recognition around the city next week. CONNECTING THE VISIBLE WITH THE INVISIBLE McLuhan at 100: Programs from the CBC Archives at the Graham Spry Theatre, CBC, provides an introduction to Marshall McLuhan and the MLN Festival. This special program of rare archival films will be . . . → Read More: McLuhan 100 in Toronto – July 18 – 24 Why are neologisms sometimes effective, and sometimes not? Why do they work when they work? Neologisms are plays on words that coin a new expression, usually as a mashup of ideas in current circulation. They work well because, like sound bites or advertising slogans, they compress the currency of our concerns into a memorable meme . . . → Read More: Sustainism & a Neologism Manifesto Michael Brenner proposes Shut Up Wednesdays, and I like this idea. We all talk too much these days. With two huge cohorts of talkers (Boomers + Millenials), “social everything,” and the general anxiety to look good when all is crashing down around us, I find myself overwhelmed by trivial chat. Here’s the key blurb on . . . → Read More: Thank You for Sharing OCAD and U of Toronto’s Bob Logan has published a new book just in time for 2011′s McLuhan Centenary: Understanding New Media: Extending Marshall McLuhan From the press release (because I have not yet read it): Marshall McLuhan made many predictions in his seminal 1964 publication, Understanding Media: Extensions of Man. Among them were his . . . → Read More: Understanding New Media |
Whether from fear or habit, our culture is not innovating the democratic change sufficient to our time. We face an urgent challenge to make the differences that effect changes that so many seek. Our cultural and social institutions have peaked out, but in their wiley senescence they have protected themselves from structural innovation. From healthcare to finance, politics to education, infrastructures & decision processes, we can & must reinvent social futures. Our societal systems have grown beyond their capacity to transform by management. Collaboration alone is insufficient - We truly need new cultures of co-innovation, collectively deciding, and socially organizing. A community of practice meets for these dialogues in person every 2nd Wednesday in Toronto: Art, science, and design are different ways of knowing. In the fields of action (business, community, and social co-creation) they regenerate each other. All ways of knowing are invited to the dance of change, if we are to interfere & reinvent our values and systems to open these possibilities. Your participation is required. |
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