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Transcending Obsolescence

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Review of Digital Communion: Marshall McLuhan’s Spiritual Vision for a Virtual Age, by Nick Ripatrazone (Fortress Press: 2022). C urrent hysteria over fake things on the Internet has stoked a lively debate on what the Internet should be, but too little about what it presently is and how it came to be. Routine complaints levied against AI-generated imagery and various instances of “fake news” center around their capacity to steer observers away from some objective reality. This alleged transgression, in turn, has led to the wholesale condemnation of communities creating such content and the software tools to make it.[1] Remarkably, anything that is a digital projection of the imagination is now on the chopping block, yet that greatest facility of the human mind is the origin of creativity and culture. Whereas television was invented as a one-way medium, the internet is interactive, and remains supported by software designed to tap into the mind and transmit what is found there to others

On Marshall McLuhan’s Catholic Globe Review of Digital Communion: Marshall McLuhan’s Spiritual Vision for a Virtual Age , by Nick Ripatrazone (Fortress Press: 2022). Conflicting Visions of the Internet C urrent hysteria over fake things on the Internet has stoked a lively debate on what the Internet should be, but too little about what it presently is and how it came to be. Routine complaints levied against AI-generated imagery and various instances of “fake news” center around their capacity to steer observers away from some objective reality. This alleged transgression, in turn, has led to t

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