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Marshall McLuhan

Author : Douglas Coupland
Publisher : Atlas and Company
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781935633167

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Marshall McLuhan by Douglas Coupland Pdf

Surveys the life and career of the social theorist best known for the quotation, "The medium is the message," who helped shape the culture of the 1960s and predicted the future of television and the rise of the Internet.

The Lost Tetrads of Marshall McLuhan

Author : Marshall McLuhan,Eric McLuhan
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781682190975

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The Lost Tetrads of Marshall McLuhan by Marshall McLuhan,Eric McLuhan Pdf

Marshall McLuhan was the visionary theorist best known for coining the phrase “the medium is the message.” His work prefigures and underlies the themes of writers and artists as disparate and essential as Andy Warhol, Nam June Paik, Neil Postman, Seth Godin, Barbara Kruger, and Douglas Rushkoff, among countless others. Shortly before his death, together with his media scholar son Eric, McLuhan worked on a new literary/visual code–almost a cross between hieroglyphics and poetry–that he called “the tetrads.” This was the ultimate theoretical framework for analyzing any new medium, a koan-like poetics that transcends traditional means of discourse. Some of the tetrads were published, but only a few. Now Eric McLuhan has recovered all the “lost” tetrads that he and his father developed, and accompanies them here with accessible explanations of how they function.

The Book of Probes

Author : Marshall McLuhan,David Carson,Eric McLuhan,William Kuhns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Mass media
ISBN : UOM:39015048090735

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The Book of Probes by Marshall McLuhan,David Carson,Eric McLuhan,William Kuhns Pdf

"'The Book of Probes' is a collection of Marshall McLuhan's finest words culled from his books, his more than 200 speeches, his classes at the University of Toronto ... and from nearly 700 shorter writings he published between 1945 and 1980"--Jacket.

Understanding Media

Author : Marshall McLuhan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 153743005X

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Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan Pdf

When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.

Understanding Me

Author : Herbert Marshall Mcluhan
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781551994161

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Understanding Me by Herbert Marshall Mcluhan Pdf

Unbuttoned McLuhan! An intimate exploration of Marshall McLuhan’s ideas in his own words In the last twenty years of his life, Marshall McLuhan published – often in collaboration with others – a series of books that established his reputation as the pre-eminent seer of the modern age. It was McLuhan who made the distinction between “hot” and “cool” media. It was he who observed that “the medium is the message” and who tossed off dozens of other equally memorable phrases from “the global village” and “pattern recognition” to “feedback” and “iconic” imagery. McLuhan was far more than a pithy-phrase maker, however. He foresaw – at a time when the personal computer was a teckie fantasy – that the world would be brought together by the internet. He foresaw the transformations that would be wrought by digital technology. He understood, before any of his contemporaries, the consequences of the revolution that television and the computer were bringing about. In many ways, we’re still catching up to him. In Understanding Me, Stephanie McLuhan and David Staines have brought together eighteen previously unpublished lectures and interviews by or involving Marshall McLuhan. They have in common the informality and accessibility of the spoken word. In every case, the text is the transcript taken down from the film, audio, or video tape of the actual encounters – this is not what McLuhan wrote but what he said. The result is a revelation: the seer who often is thought of as aloof and obscure is shown to be funny, spontaneous, and easily understood.

The Medium Is the Massage

Author : Marshall McLuhan,Quentin Fiore
Publisher : Gingko PressInc
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1584234415

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The Medium Is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan,Quentin Fiore Pdf

The Medium is the Massage remains Marshall McLuhan's most popular book, perhaps as influential as Understanding Media. With every technological and social advance, McLuhan's theories reveal how prescient his insights actually proved to be. McLuhan's proclamation that 'the media work us over completely' becomes more evident every day. In his words, 'so pervasive are they in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, or unaltered.'

Culture Is Our Business

Author : Marshall McLuhan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781625648280

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Culture Is Our Business by Marshall McLuhan Pdf

Culture Is Our Business is Marshall McLuhan's sequel to The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man. Returning to the subject of advertising newly armed with the electric sensibility that informed The Gutenberg Galaxy, Understanding Media, and The Medium Is the Massage, McLuhan takes on the mad men (a play on the ad men of Madison Avenue) of the sixties. Approaching commercial messages as unacknowledged art forms and cultural artifacts, McLuhan delivers a series of probes that pick apart their meanings and underlying values, their paradoxes and paralogisms, and their overt function as persuasion and propaganda. Through humor, satire, and a poetic sensibility, he provides us with a serious exploration of the consumer culture that emerged out of the electronic media environment. In keeping with the participatory ethos of the Internet that McLuhan so clearly anticipated, this is a book that is meant to open the door to further study, reflection, and discussion, and to encourage the development of critical reception on the part of the reader.

The Gutenberg Galaxy

Author : Marshall McLuhan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1962-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802060412

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The Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan Pdf

Since its first appearance in 1962, the impact of The Gutenberg Galaxy has been felt around the world. It gave us the concept of the global village; that phrase has now been translated, along with the rest of the book, into twelve languages, from Japanese to Serbo-Croat. It helped establish Marshall McLuhan as the original 'media guru.' More than 200,000 copies are in print. The reissue of this landmark book reflects the continuing importance of McLuhan's work for contemporary readers.

Understanding New Media

Author : Robert K. Logan
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Mass media
ISBN : 1433111268

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Understanding New Media by Robert K. Logan Pdf

Marshall McLuhan made many predictions in his seminal 1964 publication, Understanding Media: Extensions of Man. Among them were his predictions that the Internet would become a «Global Village», making us more interconnected than television; the closing of the gap between consumers and producers; the elimination of space and time as barriers to communication; and the melting of national borders. He is also famously remembered for coining the expression «the medium is the message». These predictions form the genesis of this new volume by Robert Logan, a friend and colleague who worked with McLuhan. In Understanding New Media Logan expertly updates Understanding Media to analyze the «new media» McLuhan foreshadowed and yet was never able to analyze or experience. The book is designed to reach a new generation of readers as well as appealing to scholars and students who are familiar with Understanding Media. Visit the companion website, understandingnewmedia.org, for the latest updates on this book.

The Medium and the Light

Author : Michael McLuhan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781606089927

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The Medium and the Light by Michael McLuhan Pdf

Say the name Marshall McLuhan and you think of the great discover's explorations of the media. But throughout his life, McLuhan never stopped reflecting profoundly on the nature of God and worship, and on the traditions of the Church. Often other intellectuals and artists would ask him incredulously, Are you really a Catholic? He would answer, Yes, I am a Catholic, the worst kind -- a convert, leaving them more baffled than before. Here, like a golden thread lining his public utterances on the media, are McLuhan's brilliant probes into the nature of conversion, the church's understanding of media, the shape of tomorrow's church, religion and youth, and the God-making machines of the modern world. This fascinating collection, gathered from his many and scattered remarks, essays, and other writings, shows the deeply Christian side of a man widely considered the most important thinker of our time, a man whose insights into media and culture have revolutionized the field of media study and the way we see the world.

Laws of Media

Author : Marshall McLuhan,Eric McLuhan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802077153

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Laws of Media by Marshall McLuhan,Eric McLuhan Pdf

Marshall McLuhan has been described as Canada's most exciting and original thinker, a member of the small company of intellectual geniuses this country has produced. Works such as The Gutenberg Galaxy, The Mechanical Bride , From Cliche to Archetype , and Understanding Media have established his reputation throughout the world and have profoundly influenced our understanding of contemporary communication. In his later years McLuhan was working on a 'unified field' theory of human culture, an effort in which he collaborated with and was assisted by his son, Eric McLuhan. This book is the result of that collaboration. The McLuhans are retrieving another way of understanding our world, a way known to some ancient Greeks (but not Aristotle), to medieval thinkers, to Francis Bacon and Giambattista Vico, and to T.S. Eliot and James Joyce in this century. It is based on the use of words and the conseuqent power of the 'logos' to shape all the elements of culture - media - with which we surround ourselves. The authors explain how the invention of the alphabet led to the dominance of visual-space conceptualizations over those of acoustic space and its creative words (and word-plays). They consider the differences between the left- and right-hand sides of our brains, and use Gestalt theories of figure and ground to explore the underlying principles that define media. 'Media, ' the word so closely connected with Marshall McLuhan's thought, is here explored in its broadest meaning, encompassing all that has been created by humans: artefacts, information, ideas - every example of human innovation, from computer program to a tea cup, from musical arrangement to the formula for a cold remedy, from an X-ray machine to the sentence you're reading right now. All these are media to whcih can be applied the laws the McLuhans have developed. The laws are based on a set of four questions - a tetrad - that can be applied to any artefact or idea: What does it enhance or intensify? What does it render obsolete or displace? What does it retrieve that was previoulsy obsolesced? What does it produce or become when pressed to an extreme? Inherent in every human innovation is an answer to each of the questions of this tetrad; anything that does not contain answers to these four questions is not the product of human creation. The laws identified by the McLuhans consitute a new scientific basis for media studies, testable, and able to allow for prediction. It takes in all human activities and speech; it breaks down barriers and reconsiders them as mere intervals. In the McLuhan tradition, this New Science offers a while new understanding of human creation, and a vision that could reshape our future.

Essential McLuhan

Author : Eric McLuhan,Frank Zingrone
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0887845657

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Essential McLuhan by Eric McLuhan,Frank Zingrone Pdf

Marshall McLuhan's insights are more applicable today than when he first announced them to a startled world in the 1960s. Here, in one concise volume, are McLuhan's key ideas, drawn from his books, articles, correspondence, and published speeches. This book is the essential archive of his constantly surprising vision.

Marshall McLuhan

Author : Philip Marchand
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0262631865

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Marshall McLuhan by Philip Marchand Pdf

A new look at the man who gave us ideas "the medium is the message" and "global village".

Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye

Author : B.W. Powe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442616165

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Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye by B.W. Powe Pdf

Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye are two of Canada's central cultural figures, colleagues and rivals whose careers unfolded in curious harmony even as their intellectual engagement was antagonistic. Poet, novelist, essayist and philosopher B.W. Powe, who studied with both of these formidable and influential intellectuals, presents an exploration of their lives and work in Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy. Powe considers the existence of a unique visionary tradition of Canadian humanism and argues that McLuhan and Frye represent fraught but complementary approaches to the study of literature and to the broader engagement with culture. Examining their eloquent but often acid responses to each other, Powe exposes the scholarly controversies and personal conflicts that erupted between them, and notably the great commonalities in their writing and biographies. Using interviews, letters, notebooks, and their published texts, Powe offers a new alchemy of their thought, in which he combines the philosophical hallmarks of McLuhan's “The medium is the message” and Frye's “the great code.”

Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan

Author : Rita Leistner
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
ISBN : 1783200308

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Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan by Rita Leistner Pdf

Conflict photographer and critical theorist Rita Leistner applies Marshall McLuhan's semiotic theories of language, media and technology to iPhone photographs taken during a military embed in Afghanistan. In a series of iProbes - a portmanteau of iPhone and probe - Leistner reveals the face of war through the extensions of man.