Media

The media brings the issue that what is the limitation of human activity. From McLuhan’s article, all man-made material things can be treated as extensions of what man once did with his body or some specialized part of body, men start using themselves as media. And when it goes with scientific developments, it’s hard to tell where the media come from. After then as McLuhan raised the issue, sometimes we could see the debate whether media is from man’s biological or psychological means or technical ingenuity. And from this argue, man cannot trust himself and it cause the radical change of identity.

To identify the man, mcluhan says the transformational effects of our artificial organ- they generate totally new condition of environmental service and or life- these are the concerns of Law of Media’ (p97, Law of Media). He tries to bring the issue about law of media that provide a means of identifying the properties of and actions exerted upon ourselves by our technologies and media and artifacts. (p98, Law of Media). It’s time consuming argue that man is genuine human even though he has the transmitted organ. The artefact is the active and utter if human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground. And the artifact has the meaning as a media.

In the Laura Burd Schiavo article, how the human eye became the source of image tool. From the concept of perspective, man percept the depth of space. It brings the question about the status and reliability of vision (p114, Laura Burd Schiavo).The body became as an active producer of sensation and it gives other possibility to see the view of world. The science of vision could become less geometric and less predictable. And it obscured the boundary of real image of the world. Photographers could reform the image and we could see the world as we want even though true facts are sometimes hidden and only the surface are exposed.