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The Big Ideas podcast: The medium is the message

‘In the first of a series of philosophy podcasts, Benjamen Walker and guests discuss the communication theorist Marshall McLuhan and his most famous line’

Hello, Global Villagers!

I’m very proud to share this new Guardian/Big Ideas podcast that radio maverick Benjamen Walker produced — just in time for the 100th anniversary of Marshall McLuhan’s birth.

I consider myself a huge fan and disciple of McLuhan; discovering by happy accident his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, at age 19, set in motion the perceptual tremors whose reverberations shook up forever my entire view of the world, as well as shifting the very course of my life.

So it’s with a mix of excitement and humility that I can say I was lucky enough to be able to contribute a little piece of music to the podcast: my track Asymmetry provides the rhythmic ground for the philosophical figures in the second half of the show.

Do have a listen, and feel free to share the earbrain mass-mess-age!