Virtual Marshall McLuhanMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2001 - 305 páginas Donald Theall explores and explains the significance of the emergence of McLuhan as an important figure in North America in the development of an understanding of culture, communication, and technology. He reveals important information about McLuhan and his relationships with his earliest collaborator and life-long friend, anthropologist Edmund Carpenter, as well as with Theall himself, McLuhan's first doctoral student. McLuhan emerges as a complex human being, at once attractive, witty, egotistic, and exasperating. Theall examines McLuhan's many roles - proponent of a poetic method; pop guru adopted by Tom Wolfe, Woody Allen and others; North American precursor of French theory (Baudrillard, Barthes, Derrida, Deleuze); artist; and shaman. Complex and intellectual, neither uncritical adulation nor demonization, The Virtual Marshall McLuhan does justice to a unique figure caught in a struggle between tradition and modernity, between faith and anarchy. |
Contenido
The TechnoProphet as Poet and Trickster | 38 |
McLuhan the Correspondent His Writings as Probes Percepts and Affects | 51 |
From the Trivium to the Tetrad Media as Artefact and Language | 67 |
The Professor and the Publicist Tom Wolfe the Firehouse Boys and Marshall | 81 |
McLuhanesque Ambivalence Power and Cultural Production | 95 |
McLuhan and the Cults Gnosticism Hermeticism and Modernism | 108 |
McLuhan as Prepostmodernist and Forerunner of French Theory | 125 |
McLuhan as Trickster The Poetry of Cliché | 138 |
Joyce Light and the Road to Digiculture | 170 |
McLuhan as Modern Satirist | 187 |
Conclusion Rehabilitating the Arts and the Artist | 202 |
Biographical Notes and The Medium Is the Rear View Mirror | 215 |
Edmund Carpenter That NotSoSilent Sea | 235 |
Notes | 263 |
Bibliography | 287 |
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