Internal Resonances
Some weeks ago I attended a panel discussion on the subject of heroes.
Lance
Strate was a member of the panel and he made an interesting
observation regarding the difference between heroes as represented in
cinema as opposed to television. Cinematic heroes appear on a screen,
television heroes on a monitor. If there is anything I've learned from
thinkers like Marshall McLuhan and Tony Schwartz it is that
communications mediums/forms possess their own internal resonances.
Screens resonate differently from monitors.
In exploring text & image on the web for the past decade I have come to
appreciate the civilizing influence of language. Language offers
control, whereas imagery just takes over.
© 2009 Peter
Schmideg