Taking up McLuhan's cause : perspectives on media and formal causality / edited by Corey Anton, Robert K. Logan & Lance Strate.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anton, Corey, editor.

Logan, Robert K., 1939- editor.

Strate, Lance, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980.

McLuhan, Marshall.

Causation.

Mass media criticism.

Physical Description:

xiii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Intellect ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Summary:

This book brings together a number of prominent scholars to explore a relatively under-studied area of Marshall McLuhan's thought: his concept of formal cause and the role that formal cause plays in the emergence of new technologies and in structuring societal relations. Aiming to open a new way of understanding McLuhan's thought in this area, and to provide methodological grounding for future media ecology research, the book runs the gamut, from contributions that directly support McLuhan's arguments to see in them the germs of future developments in emergent dynamics and complexity theory. Book jacket.

Contents:

Foreword / Eric McLuhan

A trialogic introduction / Robert K. Logan, Corey Anton and Lance Strate

The form of things to come : a review of Media and formal cause / Corey Anton

McLuhan, formal cause and the future of technological mediation & postscript / Corey Anton

Medium as 'metaform' : an inquiry into the life of forms / Paolo Granata

From Aristotle via Aquinas : understanding formal cause in Marshall McLuhan's philosophy / Laura Trujillo Liñán

The effects that give cause, and the pattern that directs / Lance Strate

McLuhan and causality : technological determinism, formal cause and emergence / Robert K. Logan

Formal cause : McLuhan's 'Objective Turn'? / Yoni Van Den Eede

Forms of causality / Chad Hansen

Anti-environmental art and its role in making formal cause visible / Steve Reagles

Of memes, modes, minor audiences and formal cause / Eric S. Jenkins

After effects, before causes : technique, artistic intent and formal causality / Kirk Zamieroski

Re-cognizing formal cause / Peter Zhang

Disrobing the probe, unpacking the sprachage : formal cause or the cause of form reframing McLuhan and the Kabbalah / Adeena Karasick.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783206940

1783206942

OCLC:

974443820