The virtual Marshall McLuhan

"Marshall McLuhan explored everything from popular culture to the occult to the emerging digital revolution. In the Virtual Marshall McLuhan Donald Theall discusses the influences that shaped McLuhan's ideas and examines McLuhan's roles as artist, pop guru, shaman, and scholar. Theall...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Theall, Donald F., 1928- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press 2001.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31082993*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prelude: McLuhan's Basic Probes and Perceptions
  • Introduction: Who/What Is Marshall McLuhan?
  • The Techno-Prophet as Poet and Trickster
  • McLuhan the Correspondent: His Writings as Probes, Percepts, and Affects
  • From the Trivium to the Tetrad: Media as Artefact and Language
  • The Professor and the Publicist: Tom Wolfe, the Firehouse Boys, and Marshall
  • McLuhanesque Ambivalence: Power and Cultural Production
  • McLuhan and the Cults: Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and Modernism
  • McLuhan as Prepostmodernist and Forerunner of French Theory
  • McLuhan as Trickster: The Poetry of Cliche
  • McLuhan, Joyce, and the Evolution of Cyberculture
  • Joyce, Light, and the Road to Digiculture
  • McLuhan as Modern Satirist
  • Conclusion: Rehabilitating the Arts and the Artist
  • Biographical Notes and The Medium Is the Rear View Mirror
  • Edmund Carpenter, "That Not-So-Silent Sea".