Status Updates From The Obsolescence of the Hum...

First ten pgs of World As Phantom & Matrix, written 10 years before Understanding Media, render M.M. superfluous.

Although it's never spelled out there are some slight hints in the footnotes that Anders had to work with his hands for a living as a WW2 emigre, possibly in some West Coast arms plant. His description of the promethean shame of the incompetent production line worker must be based on personal experience. Some stogie-smoking Okie foreman yelled at the egghead rookie and inadvertently caused a philosophical masterpiece

Anders' devastating critique of jazz-as-machine-music, which the translator queasily attributes to typical attitudes towards American music of European war emigres, is not only entirely accurate but predicted the destruction of American black music by the computer decades in advance

Never knew shame was so fascinating

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