AND ANSWERS
What does Marcuse identify as true needs? - ANS vital needs, nourishment, clothing, lodging
at the attainable level of culture
What has caused us to become one-dimensional? - ANS Social controls have been
introjected into the individual, lose individuality.
How did the Frankfurt School answer the question of why Marx's revolution to overthrow
capitalism hadn't occurred? - ANS People are living in a more advanced society, have tvs,
cars, society is comfortable, mass culture is creating a conformist, consumerist, uncritical
society of individuals
What is Slack and Wise's definition of technological culture? - ANS Movement past received
view, tech. Is a cultural arraignment, embedded in assemblages
McLuhan - - ANS media as extension of senses- how the body is extended into the world,
content is the trap
What does McLuhan mean when he writes that "the medium is the message"? - ANS it is
what changes when a technology is introduced
How might technologies like an electric light serve as an example of a medium for McLuhan? -
ANS For McLuhan, spelling out is not the message but instead the content
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