Amor technologiae : Marshall McLuhan as philosopher of technology : toward a philosophy of human-media relationships / Yoni Van Den Eede ; book design Yoni Van Den Eede.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eede, Yoni van den.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980.

McLuhan, Marshall.

Technology--Philosophy.

Technology.

Technology--Social aspects.

Mass media--Social aspects.

Mass media.

Communication--Social aspects.

Communication.

Communication and culture.

Mass media--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (519 p.)

Place of Publication:

Brussels, Belgium : VUBPress, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fusing the fairly new traditions of philosophy of technology and media ecology in a systematic manner, this discussion interprets and rephrases the work of media theorist Marshall McLuhan in the context of a comprehensive philosophy of media. Seen from this perspective, it argues that media are not merely channels, forces, or things, as more traditional accounts would have it; they are partially elusive and inherently ambivalent entities to which humans need to meaningfully relate, through the existential project of engaging into, building, and savoring relationships with them.

Contents:

""Front ""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Content""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Introducing a Protagonist: Marshall McLuhan, “Media Philosopher�""; ""3 �Love Is Blind�: Blindness in Relation to “What We Get�""; ""4 Love Is Happiness Is Suffering: Ambivalence in Relation to “What We Want�""; ""5 Revisiting a Protagonist: A Prelude to Stories of Illusion and Loss, One and Many, Stasis and Change""; ""6 Out of Ourselves: The Lover as the One Who Is Extended""; ""7 The In-between:""; ""The Love as Constitutive-Transformative Process""

""8 Fourfold Media: The Beloved as the Working �Core�""""9 Medial Nodes: An Eye for Objects, a Mind for Mediation, a Heart for Humans""; ""10 Us in Things: The Lovers� Fight in Technical Form � or, Material Ideology""; ""11 Mediation-of-Mediation: The “Loves� Multiplied � or, Medial Networks""; ""12 Politics in Things: Conspiracies of the Beloved � or, Things� Hidden Agenda""; ""13 A Pan-Medial Cosmology""; ""14 Into Ourselves: Is Narcissus a Narcissist by Design?""; ""15 In between Fixity and Adaptation: Home Is Where the Brain Wires""

""16 Living the Object: Collectors by Design""""17 Living through the Stasis-Change Dynamic: Learning-as-Dialogue""; ""18 Concluding Remarks on Love""; ""Notes""; ""References""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 04, 2013).

OCLC:

922966348