This work of critical writing intends to look at the topic of media in contemporary society. This writing should be seen as the beginning of further attempts — building on the insights of figures as intellectually diverse as Marshall McLuhan and the lesser-known media theorist Harold A. Innis, Canadian philosopher George Parkin Grant, Noam Chomsky, and Camille Paglia — to extend towards a “unified field theory” of the relations between media and society. It could be argued that the effect on society of the emergence […]