McLUHAN's Tetrad & Political Activism with Gerry Fialka

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Marshall McLUHAN's Percepts As Political Activism - Gerry Fialka's fun interactive salon probes the meta-influences of McLuhan, whose percepts are still changing the world. McLuhan hoicked up mindfulness as a path to cope with media's hidden effects by devising the Tetrad, four questions one can apply to "media" = "technology," as in anything humans invent from clothing to computers, from language to philosophy, from toothpicks to cell phones. Delve deep into what are these unintended consequences, and what we can do about them. Laughtears.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Fialka

Gerry Fialka is an activist, artist, writer, interviewer, and paramedia ecologist. He lectures world-wide on experimental film, avant-garde art and subversive social media. Called "the multi-media Renaissance man" (Los Angeles Times), and "a cultural revolutionary" (LA Weekly), he hosts the Marshall McLuhan-Finnegans Wake Reading Club (established 1995) in Venice, CA. Fialka worked for George Carlin, who said to GF, "I'm gonna learn a lot from you." Two-time Oscar winner John Nelson called GF "a beat poet." GF worked for Frank Zappa for over 9 years. He has also worked with John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Sunny War and Josh Freese.

Music by Dean Stevens

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