Media – Liminal Wordsmith

September 28, 2025

Electracy on Stage: The 1975 and the New Aesthetic

When thinking about Justin Hodgson’s ideas about the post-digital world, my mind immediately goes to The 1975. Digital tech is not separate from daily life anymore. It surrounds us all the time, and we usually only notice it when it glitches or becomes overwhelming. McLuhan’s “the medium is the message” and Ulmer’s idea of electracy

Living in the Post-Digital World

I’ve been reading Justin Hodgson’s Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic, and it really made me think about how much digital life has blended into everything we do. Marshall McLuhan once said the medium is the message, and Gregory Ulmer emphasized the creative side of digital media. Hodgson picks up where they left off, but

Everything in Its Right Place

Marshall McLuhan once said, “the medium is the message.” What he meant is that what really matters about media isn’t just the content but the atmosphere it creates around us. Radiohead has been shaping those kinds of atmospheres for decades. Take Everything in Its Right Place, the opener on Kid A. The words cycle like