Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- McLuhan's Global Village Today: An Introduction
- Part I McLuhan and Media Theory
- 1 In-Corporating the Global Village
- 2 Metaphorical Effects: McLuhan's Media
- 3 Hot/Cool vs Technological/Symbolic: McLuhan and Kittler
- 4 Global Immediacy
- 5 The Complementary Aspects of Marshall McLuhan and Postmodernism in the Literary Study of the Internet: Exemplified in the Rhizome Theory of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
- 6 Dubjection: A Node (Reflections on Web-Conferencing, McLuhan and Intellectual Property)
- Part II McLuhan and Literature
- Part III McLuhan and Technical Media
- Notes
- Index
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- McLuhan's Global Village Today: An Introduction
- Part I McLuhan and Media Theory
- 1 In-Corporating the Global Village
- 2 Metaphorical Effects: McLuhan's Media
- 3 Hot/Cool vs Technological/Symbolic: McLuhan and Kittler
- 4 Global Immediacy
- 5 The Complementary Aspects of Marshall McLuhan and Postmodernism in the Literary Study of the Internet: Exemplified in the Rhizome Theory of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
- 6 Dubjection: A Node (Reflections on Web-Conferencing, McLuhan and Intellectual Property)
- Part II McLuhan and Literature
- Part III McLuhan and Technical Media
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Media always already provide the appearances of spectres.
Friedrich KittlerHaving extended or translated our central nervous system into the electromagnetic technology, it is but a further stage to transfer our consciousness to the computer world as well.
Marshall McLuhanIf consciousness should, ultimately, prove to be uploadable, corporations will hold patents on the software that will embrace our minds.
Chris DewdneyWhat is no longer archived in the same way is no longer lived in the same way.
Jacques DerridaWhen Martin Kuester accepted my presentation for the Marburg Canadian Studies Centre's May 2011 conference McLuhan's Global Village Today, I was pleased to be included in this centennial celebration of Canada's foremost media scholar. When it looked like I would not be able to attend, Martin Kuester gamely agreed to allow my proposed remote presentation of the talk via digital web-conferencing. Following a successful test run of the technology conducted a week before the proceedings, on 13 May I presented my paper: ‘McLuhan's “Frankenpheme” of Technology’, a close reading of the discourse of technology in McLuhan's writing. When Martin Kuester circulated the call for expanded contributions to a volume of the proceedings, I was pained to decline: mine was reserved for other publication plans. But when I proposed, instead, a kind of meta-commentary about my talk's McLuhanesque mediation, and the implications of this mediation, Dr Kuester – again very gamely – expressed interest.
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- McLuhan's Global Village TodayTransatlantic Perspectives, pp. 59 - 74Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014
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