DISQUS

echovar: !Kung: Banking Social Relationships

  • Simon Edhouse · 7 months ago
    Cliff, would you class yourself as a kind of "probe" too? (using McLuhan's definition) - If you are, you are perhaps 'probe +' or 'an insightful probe'...
  • cgerrish · 7 months ago
    McLuhan's idea of probes is very interesting, they aren't personal. A couple of quotes: 'I have no devotion to any of my probes as if they were sacred opinions. I have no proprietary interest in my ideas and no pride of authorship as such. You have to push ideas to an extreme, you have to probe.' 'A good probe is hard to exhaust. It does not surrender everything at first encounter...'
  • Simon Edhouse · 7 months ago
    ...not wanting to anthropomorphize the inanimate.. but perhaps: 'a meme with a mission'?