Transforming McLuhan

Transforming McLuhan repositions Canadian media and culture thinker Marshall McLuhan as a uniquely important critic of modernity, resisting uncontrolled technological change. Rejecting the view of McLuhan as an uncritical herald of technotopia, contributors represent diverse academic perspectives, and include Douglas Kellner, Nick Stevenson, Gary Genosko, Richard Cavell, Lance Strate, Glenn Willmott, Patrick Brantlinger, Donna Flayhan, and Bob Hanke.

Autorentext

Paul Grosswiler is the author of The Method is the Message: Rethinking McLuhan Through Critical Theory (1998), as well as 30 articles and book chapters. He teaches in the department of communication and journalism at the University of Maine.

Klappentext

Transforming McLuhan repositions Canadian media and culture thinker Marshall McLuhan as a uniquely important critic of modernity, resisting uncontrolled technological change. Rejecting the view of McLuhan as an uncritical herald of technotopia, contributors represent diverse academic perspectives, and include Douglas Kellner, Nick Stevenson, Gary Genosko, Richard Cavell, Lance Strate, Glenn Willmott, Patrick Brantlinger, Donna Flayhan, and Bob Hanke.

Zusammenfassung
Repositions Canadian media and culture thinker Marshall McLuhan as a uniquely important critic of modernity, resisting uncontrolled technological change. This book features contributors who represent diverse academic perspectives who rejecct the view of McLuhan as an uncritical herald of technotopia.

Inhalt

Contents: Paul Grosswiler: Acknowledgments - Paul Grosswiler: Introduction: Transforming McLuhan - 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 - Donna Flayhan: Radical or Reactionary? A Closer Look at Critical Theory, Media Ecology and Marxisms - Paul Grosswiler: McLuhan and Marxisms Past and Present - Richard Cavell: Specters of McLuhan: Derrida, Media, and Materiality - Patrick Brantlinger: McLuhan, Crash Theory, and the Invasion of the Nanobots - Douglas Kellner: Reflections on Modernity and Postmodernity in McLuhan and Baudrillard - Bob Hanke: McLuhan, Virilio and Speed.