pA series of strongpoetic probesstrong and strongphilosophical musingsstrong based on 7 pechakucha presentations, and featuring strong140 original collage illustrationsstrong, strongemMassaging the Mediumemstrong features famed poet strongAdeena Karasickstrong at her best incisive, insightful, ironic, illuminating, and always devoted to free play and humorous juxtapositions as she surveys our current semantic and media environments. The topics she takes up include the language and literature, symbols and meaning, media and technology, mysticism and spirituality, communication and communion, telephone and theatre, and general semantics and media ecology.ppbrpp In the alternate universe where Roland Barthes was a TikTok star and Marshall McLuhan an Instagram Influencer cloned with a generation of super-whiz critical-wise-cracking kids to produce super-hip trend-smart media brand collage-critique they might have ap- proached the extra-orbital velocity of Adeena Karasick's high-powered cul