The Medium is the Massage

30 years after its publication Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is the Massage remains his most entertaining, provocative, and piquant book. With every technological and social "advance" McLuhan's proclamation that "the media work us over completely" becomes more evident and plain. In his words, Uso pervasive are they in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, or unaltered'. McLuhan's remarkable observation that "societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication" is undoubtedly more relevant today than ever before. With the rise of the internet and the explosion of the digital revolution there has never been a better time to revisit Marshall McLuhan. New printing - 2011 - with cover design by Shepard Fairey. 马歇尔·麦克卢汉（Marshall McLuhan，1911-1980）是加拿大文学批评家、传播学家、传播学媒介环境学派一代宗师，被誉为20世纪的“思想家”“先知”“圣人”。以“地球村”“媒介是人的延伸”“媒介即讯息”等论断名震全球。 “麦克卢汉学”已然成为世界范围的显学。随着2011年世界各地麦克卢汉百年诞辰纪念活动的展开，第三次麦克卢汉热已经形成。他的思想跨越国界，跨越学术边界，已经并将继续产生深远的影响。 麦克卢汉的代表作有《机器新娘：工业人的民俗》《理解媒介：论人的延伸》《谷登堡星汉璀璨：印刷文明的诞生》《媒介定律：新科学》等。