{"id":629,"date":"2016-09-12T13:05:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T20:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/?p=629"},"modified":"2023-02-05T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T22:10:00","slug":"marshall-mcluhan-buckminster-fullers-first-meeting-on-an-intellectual-cruise-around-the-greek-islands-mcluhan-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/marshall-mcluhan-buckminster-fullers-first-meeting-on-an-intellectual-cruise-around-the-greek-islands-mcluhan-galaxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall McLuhan &#038; Buckminster Fuller's First Meeting on an Intellectual Cruise Around the Greek Islands | McLuhan Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-630\" src=\"http:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/..\/media\/useriscontent-july11McLuhan_Fuller.jpg\" alt=\"useriscontent-july11mcluhan_fuller\" width=\"546\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/..\/media\/useriscontent-july11McLuhan_Fuller.jpg 546w, https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/..\/media\/useriscontent-july11McLuhan_Fuller-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 85vw, 546px\" \/><br \/>\nBuckminster Fuller and Marshall McLuhan met for the first time \u00a0after boarding the New Hellas in Athens for an eight-day boat trip \u00a0around the Greek Islands. The two gurus of the electronic age had been \u00a0invited on the trip, along with thirty-two other \u00a0leading intellectuals from fourteen countries, \u00a0by Constantinos Doxiadis, a Greek architect \u00a0and urban planner. The idea was to have a \u00a0<em>\"<\/em><em>symposion<\/em><em>,\"\u009d<\/em> a radical mixing of intellectual \u00a0activity and sensual pleasure as the boat traveled \u00a0from island to island. Each morning, the \u00a0group would have informal but intense discussions \u00a0onboard about <em>\"the evolution of human \u00a0settlements.\"\u009d<\/em> In the afternoon and evening, \u00a0they would leave the boat to go swimming, visit \u00a0famous historic sites, eat in restaurants, see performances, go dancing, \u00a0and shop. High-level theoretical discourse was well lubricated with \u00a0retsina and ouzo.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story: <a href=\"https:\/\/mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/26\/marshall-mcluhan-buckminster-fullers-first-meeting-on-an-intellectual-cruise-around-the-greek-islands\/\">Marshall McLuhan &amp; Buckminster Fuller's First Meeting on an Intellectual Cruise Around the Greek Islands<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buckminster Fuller and Marshall McLuhan met for the first time \u00a0after boarding the New Hellas in Athens for an eight-day boat trip \u00a0around the Greek Islands. The two gurus of the electronic age had been \u00a0invited on the trip, along with thirty-two other \u00a0leading intellectuals from fourteen countries, \u00a0by Constantinos Doxiadis, a Greek architect \u00a0and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/marshall-mcluhan-buckminster-fullers-first-meeting-on-an-intellectual-cruise-around-the-greek-islands-mcluhan-galaxy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Marshall McLuhan &#038; Buckminster Fuller's First Meeting on an Intellectual Cruise Around the Greek Islands | McLuhan Galaxy\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[361,190],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john","tag-buckminster-fuller","tag-marshall-mcluhan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}