ISBN:
9781433110672
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9781433110665
Language:
English
Pages:
XXIV, 238 S.
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230 mm x 160 mm
DDC:
302.23092
Keywords:
McLuhan, Marshall
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Mass media and culture
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Mass media Philosophy
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Critical theory
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Mass media criticism
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McLuhan, Marshall 1911-1980
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Medientheorie
Abstract:
"Transforming McLuhan explores the radical, humanist line of descent in interpreting Canadian media and culture theorist Marshall McLuhan's work, rejecting the dominant view of McLuhan as a conservative, uncritical herald of technological determinism and capitalism. This McLuhan is the oppositional critic of modernity, resisting uncontrolled technological change, who seeks new media forms with a human face. Contributors from diverse international and academic perspectives include Douglas Kellner, Nick Stevenson, Gary Genosko, Richard Cavell, Lance Strate, Glenn Willmott, Patrick Brantlinger, Donna Flayhan, and Bob Hanke." ""Marshall McLuhan was the first to theorize and to develop a concept of media, indicating their importance to all areas of society and culture. Today media are far more pervasive than in the 1950s and 1960s when he wrote. Yet his work has still not received its due attention. Transforming McLuhan will begin to correct this oversight."---Mark Poster, University of California-Irvine; Author of What's the Matter with the Internet? and Information Please" ""Transforming McLuhan re-reads the McLuhan phenomenon in light of today's media-saturated, 24/7 news and smartphone world. Here we meet again with the visionary Tiresias in the Underworld whose dark sayings once lit the late afternoon of the twentieth century. These critical readings create a time-out to question him again and to open space-time interstices for alternate thoughts and alternate actions." ---Michael Heim, Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles; Author of The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality and Virtual Realism" ""Transforming McLuhan offers a rich and textured reconsideration of Marshall McLuhan's ideas, demonstrating how McLuhan's work is a better match for current multi-dimensional and ambivalent understandings of media and culture than it was for the narrower conceptions that guided those who dismissed McLuhan in his own time. These provocative and well-written essays persuasively engage in what I have called ̀morphing' McLuhan with other key theoretical frameworks. As a resuit, Transforming McLuhan illustrates that cultural theorists have much to learn from McLuhanism, but that McLuhan's perspective also has much room for enrichment t from critical media studies." ---Joshua Meyrowitz, University of New Hampshire; Author of No Sense of Place: The Impact of Media on Social Behavior"--BOOK JACKET
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction
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McLuhan and Cultural Studies. Gary Genosko: Coping with the McLuhans: The Passively Active Receiver in Communication Theory and Cultural Studies ; Nick Stevenson: Marshall McLuhan and Media and Cultural Studies ; Glenn Willmott: Waking Up to the Call Girl ; Lance Strate: Studying Media As Media: McLuhan and the Media Ecology Approach ; McLuhan and Critical Theory. Donna Flayhan: Radical or Reactionary? A Closer Look at Critical Theory, Media Ecology and Marxisms ; Paul Grosswiler: McLuhan and Marxisms Past and Present ; McLuhan and Postmodernism. Richard Cavell: Specters of McLuhan: Derrida, Media, and Materiality ; Patrick Brantlinger: McLuhan, Crash Theory, and the Invasion of the Nanobots ; Douglas Kellner: Baudrillard: A New McLuhan ; Bob Hanke: McLuhan, Virilio and Speed.
URL:
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=020488338&sequence=000004&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
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