“I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.”
—Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964
Here’s a deck of cards McLuhan released six years before Eno and Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies. Many of them haven’t aged particularly well, but they’re interesting as a historical curiosity. A few of my favorites:
See also: my card games