Questions #3

"The new media," he (McLuhan) went on to say in 1969 "are not ways of relating us to the old "real" world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will." What does this quote mean to you? Do you think that McLuhan is right? The author writes, "Art lies in the intentionality of the artist: to make or conceive of something without the constraint of some other purpose." Do you think that this is true? What is your definition of art and how is it different or the same from the stated definition.