The Medium is The Colonizer
In January 1994, Nancy Perin watched Silvio Berlusconi walk off a television screen and into Italian politics. She had Marshall McLuhan in her head. Almost forty years later, she understands what he was actually describing: not a theory of media, but a theory of colonization. In this Standing for Humanity piece on nancyperin.com, Nancy traces how AI has occupied consciousness, evacuated democracy, and enclosed the physical commons—the water the machine drinks and the communities that bear its weight. The resistance begins with unpredicted output. It continues with organized action.
