It's either the refinement of a prosthesis to help or hinder the development of Self and Community, or it's the amplification of an anti-humanism all set to deal a death blow to hylomorphism, the ancient dualism of matter and spirit. This is the basis for his insistence that natural language be the medium for social exchange, as opposed to more abstract entities such as money. Money is an example of what he calls steering media, forms of signification uncoupled from the lifeworld that have the power to proceed on their own and perpetuate themselves according to their own rules and schemes. On the other hand, take David Wellbery's description of poststructuralism in his foreword to Friedrich Kittler's Discourse Networks . That complexity is medium itself.
Ecology consists of media.
Brain and body are both such media. As an organism, the state delegates certain members to its frontiers as antibodies. Theoretically, the nomad scenario doesn't operate this way. They bond together according to localized field dynamics rather than an overarching scheme. Of course, any liberatory reality behind the theory has yet to be seen.