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McLuhan, or Modernism in Reverse.

McLuhan, or Modernism in Reverse thus aims to retrace and synthesize McLuhan's work in order to illuminate his unexpected meaning and value for critical practice today.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Willmott, Glenn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1996.
Colección:Theory/culture series.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: McLuhan's Medium
  • Part I. Modernism: Reversing the Message
  • 1 The Art of Criticism
  • A Historical Aesthetic
  • Eliot: The Self as History
  • Richards and Leavis: Plasticity and Modernity
  • McLuhan's New Criticism
  • In America
  • 2 The Art of Montage
  • Eisenstein: The Image as Crime, and Its Reconstruction
  • Lewis: Self-Images Forwards and Backwards
  • Modernism as Mimesis
  • Pound: The Scene of the Crime, and Its Translation
  • Defining Techne
  • 3 Symbolic Reversals
  • The Interior Landscape: Its Arrest, Projection, Retracing
  • The Reversal of Interiority: Landscapes of the Self beyond Itself
  • Political Implications
  • 4 The Art of Politics
  • Situations in America
  • Mythic America: North and South
  • McLuhan's Formalist Politics
  • 5 Technological Reversals
  • Mumford: Techne as Nature
  • Giedion: Techne as Text
  • Innis: Techne as History
  • From Techne to Media
  • Part II. Postmodernism: Reversing the Global Village
  • 6 The Modern Primitive
  • Myth in the Global Village
  • The Mythic Self: Being in the Word as in History
  • The Mythic Mask: Primitivism and Modernity
  • 7 The Postmodern Mask
  • Publication
  • Mediatization
  • McLuhan as Art
  • McLuhan as Business
  • Commodification
  • The 'Put-On'
  • Media: The Use of the Cliché
  • Happenings: The Use of the Archetype
  • 8 The Postmodern Medium
  • From Work to Text
  • Surfacing
  • Historicity without History
  • Terror and Euphoria
  • The Global Medium
  • 9 Being There
  • Fictionalism
  • Heidegger: Mediating Being
  • Grant: Nature and Deprival
  • Belonging to Counter-Culture
  • Negotiating Canadianicity
  • CONCLUSION: McLuhan's Message
  • NOTES
  • WORKS CITED
  • INDEX
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Y
  • Z.