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המדיום הוא המדרש

The Medium is the Midrash

Marshall McLuhan’s media theory, run across three thousand years of Jewish text, from the voice at Sinai to the hyperlinked Talmud page.

Watch the film A short animated film in twelve chapters, with the full script
The long cutגרסה ראשונה

A film in seven chapters

The first, longer telling: McLuhanism and Jewish texts in seventeen minutes and forty seconds, with its own score. Downloadable as an MP4.

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Reader’s guideמבוא

What would Understanding Media say about Torah?

The question at the center, the working vocabulary, the method, the anchoring cases and how the project treats generative AI.

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Podcast seriesשיעור

Ten episodes that pay the cost

Each episode is set in the medium it examines, so the form does the arguing before any analysis arrives. Thirty to forty minutes, fortnightly.

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Companionספרייה

The Library of Bavel

A Borges library of Jewish media, shelved by McLuhan’s tetrad. Wander the stacks.

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McLuhan in four ideasVertical shorts · about two minutes each · sound on
Sources: McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), Understanding Media (1964); McLuhan & McLuhan, Laws of Media (1988). jacobsager.com