摘要：This paper deals with the possible relevance of eschatological and messianic perspectives in
Vil¨|m Flusser!ˉs and Marshall McLuhan!ˉs media thees. Both authors postulate a first stage from
which media evolution sets out and a last stage to be reached with the development of new media
such as television, film, and photography. McLuhan describes the global village as the result of a
process of totalizing re-tribalization: it returns us to a !(R)second orlity!ˉ under the auspices of the
integrating forces of tactility. Flusser, on the other hand, conceives of the telematic society of the
future as an attempt at synthesizing Jewish and Greek traditions: it reaches back to a previous
unity by moving beyond it.
关键词：eschatology, Kleist, nomadism, telematic society, electric age
