The Medium is the Massage

*The pages that I read were scattered and not necessarily corresponding to one another.*

The Medium is the Massage talks about how writing and literacy came to be, how it shaped who people are. Because of literacy we were able to communicate in a whole other light. Writing was not only a way to communicate, but a way of expression. "that we by tracing magic lines are taught, how to embody and color thought?"
Next I read about the idea of detention, and how being enclose was a way of punishment. Along with how guilt is shared among everyone nowadays. In todays society we are never really alone is how we feel, but that we share our guilt with each other - "everybody is so profoundly involved in every-body else, and in which nobody can really imagine what private guilt can be anymore"


Having looked through this book, I notice how a lot of the pictures are up close - almost so you might not recognize what they are. The imagines are composed very beautifully, and makes me want to stare and each one of them for a split second longer than I normally would.