Comments on: Marshall McLuhan: The First Second-Order Cybernetician https://www.concernednetizen.com/2025/11/marshall-mcluhan-the-first-second-order-cybernetician/ Full-Stack Media Ecology Mon, 29 Dec 2025 02:30:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Olga Stein https://www.concernednetizen.com/2025/11/marshall-mcluhan-the-first-second-order-cybernetician/#comment-4063 Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:20:46 +0000 https://www.concernednetizen.com/?p=1170#comment-4063 Correct the following: ….But second-order cyberneticians ought TO HAVE noticed what McLuhan was trying to say here. It’s a shame THEY DIDN’T.

Extremely interesting analysis. Brilliant, in fact!
What was McLuhan doing? As you suggest, he may have been attempting a synthesis of the newer concepts with the older framework that was familiar to him (the two weren’t incompatible, as he saw it). He was also bringing the au courant terminology into his desired conceptual framework so as to underscore what his and the newer frameworks had in common.

Great work!!

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