Legacy of McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan, a central figure in the fields of communication studies and media ecology, is one of the most important and influential intellectuals of the twentieth century. This volume of original essays brings together 29 leading experts from a wide variety of academic disciplines, and from the media professions, to explore, assess, critique, and extend McLuhan's rich and controversial legacy. The contributors to this anthology address such diverse areas as communication studies,...
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Marshall McLuhan, a central figure in the fields of communication studies and media ecology, is one of the most important and influential intellectuals of the twentieth century. This volume of original essays brings together 29 leading experts from a wide variety of academic disciplines, and from the media professions, to explore, assess, critique, and extend McLuhan's rich and controversial legacy. The contributors to this anthology address such diverse areas as communication studies, journalism, literature, art and art history, archeology, computer science, digital media, philosophy, theology, law, history, psychology, sociology, political science, and cultural studies. The Legacy of McLuhan goes further than any previous study in showing the broad and far-reaching impact of the thought, the publication and the life of Herbert Marshall McLuhan.
Introduction11Media transcendence252From tribal to global : a brief history of civilization from a McLuhanesque perspective353Virtuality and McLuhan's "world as art form"434Beyond McLuhanism : McLuhan and the digital age495McLuhan in the digital age : where are you now that we need you?616Hold the 21st century! : the world isn't ready : international relations and the bias of technology677The invention of Lasagna made the pullman car obsolete : or how I got Marshall McLuhan's message758McLuhan and holeopathic quadrophrenia : the mouse-that-roared syndrome839The mechanical bridegroom stripped bare : a catechism of McLuhanism for unbelievers9510The interface between writing and art10911Did Picasso and da Vinci, Newton and Einstein, the Bushman and the Englishman see the same thing when they faced the east at dawn? : or, some lessons I learned from Marshall McLuhan about perception, time, space, and the order of the world12312McLuhan and earthscore13713"Integral awareness" : Marshall McLuhan as a man of letters15314Why world history needs McLuhan16315How cool it was : the usurious artisan and the medieval economy17716Turning the machine off - violence in a technological society or McLuhan in the age of the smart bomb19517Understanding McLuhan in theological space20518Children of the mechanical bride : additional abstractions of human stereotypes21319Why print is "cool," and orality is body temperature21920Marshall McLuhan meets communication 101 : McLuhan as exile22721Early medium theory, or roots of technological determinism in communication theory23722Retrieving McLuhan for cultural studies and postmodernism24723He didn't do it : some cautions on the current McLuhan revival26124Way cool text through light hot wires and thin air26925The global village versus tribal man : the paradox of the medium and the message28326The hypertext heuristic : McLuhan probes tested (a case for edible spaceships)30527"Remediating" McLuhan323
