Planner Tip of The Month

I first tasted McLuhan about a decade back. Most of him went over my head...Then about 3-4 years back laid my hands on a 'kunji/ key' of McLuhan at a Strand book SALE...

Whenever, I feel troubled by the sea of mediocre thoughts(both mine and around me), I delve into his...

Here's a tip for planners from the book.

McLuhan would bristle at the word "connection". He thought that connectivity just like theory, was hopelessly "visual", that is, a one-dimensional and outmoded strategy to understand anything. In McLuhan's opinion, seemingly un-related things could yield an insight once they were brought in vicinity of each other.

In his writing, he was fond of using the technique of collage and juxtaposition, sometimes including pictures and designs, not to illustrate a point but merely to bring out new ones from the reader...

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