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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 171–191.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Bernhard J. Dotzler Each “new technology” inflicts “new violence” on its subjects. Following Marshall McLuhan's argument, this article outlines a theoretical frame for thinking about the relationship between violence and the media. Focusing on Stanley Milgram's experiment mentioned by McLuhan...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 227–249.
Published: 01 July 2017
... scholars affiliated with the University of Toronto and surrounds during the period 1930–80. This constellation includes thinkers such as Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, Northrop Frye, and Edmund Carpenter, who pioneered many of the touchstone ideas and methods that enliven contemporary...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 166–179.
Published: 01 March 2024
... will be overlaid by fields of a technical origin, and these would be not only much stronger in several frequency ranges, but also have characteristics that do not exist in natural fields” (Neitzke, Osterhoff, and Voigt 2006 ). “Environments are invisible,” wrote Marshall McLuhan in 1967 (84). Following...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 134–138.
Published: 01 March 2015
... McLuhan, and George Grant allows us to assert that there exists a distinctive “Canadian discourse on technology” ( Kroker 1984 ), then surely Arthur Kroker is to be regarded as one of the leading contemporary exponents of this line of thought. Claiming that this project involves theorizing a middle way...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 97–119.
Published: 01 March 2012
... and the commercial availability of the portapak video camera for a video underground to develop, through exploring this new medium's properties. Paul Ryan, a research assistant to Marshall McLuhan during his 1967–68 residency at Fordham University, was among this group. He borrowed the university's equipment...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 376–388.
Published: 01 November 2014
... to counterbalance long-held assumptions about the relationship between humans and media technologies. Granted, like Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan, Kittler may have gone overboard, but this was inevitable given that, prior to his arrival, the boat was threatening to capsize on the other side. The concept...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 399–402.
Published: 01 November 2006
... of the cultural politics of global media. These books, like Miles’, really put into question McLuhan’s notions concerning the potential of electronic media to create a homogeneous sense and political culture of what he called the global village. Opposing forces to McLuhan’s futural theoretical predictions seem...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2015
... that is leading the way”—the “purest expression of the system” (23). It is interesting that Marshall McLuhan’s chapter on money in Understanding Media (1964) mentions John Maynard Keynes and the move away from the gold standard, and Baudrillard suggests that it is possible to go beyond this to what can...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 156–176.
Published: 01 July 2017
... at the expense of other forms of relation that come from my contact with that which may remain just outside my own experience. In our discussion of narcissism, however, we should also remember Marshall McLuhan’s reading of the myth. McLuhan gives us an understanding of narcissism that is explicitly...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 361–373.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., Lacan, Foucault, Marshall McLuhan, and Claude Shannon; he was also Friedrich Schlegel (and a couple of other romantics) on acid. But maybe the whole Greek adventure is the last big joke the crafty Loki played on us. Kittler was, after all, one of Foucault's most zealous readers; he was much too...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 29–48.
Published: 01 March 2006
... that Marshall McLuhan emphasized in his conception of the “global village” in 1968. Networked communications had universalized the villagers' rage against the discrepancy between the information they were given and the material things they couldn't have ( McLuhan and Fiore 1968 ). The Vietnam War itself...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 367–387.
Published: 01 November 2022
.... 2008 . Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain . New York : Harper Perennial . I shall start with Will Self's controversial comments about a sinister form of bidirectional digital media (BDDM), which he takes to be close to Marshall McLuhan's concept of the unified...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 375–384.
Published: 01 November 2012
... with the prevailing zeitgeist. CW: How do you regard the fact that an entire school of thought has emerged in your wake? FK: Funnily enough, I like it. We invested a lot of work that is now recognized worldwide. In the case of Marshall McLuhan, you can prove that every fifth sentence is wrong and every...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 279–292.
Published: 01 November 2016
...) The Marvelous Clouds . It articulates the point that not only are media understandable as environments (as we learned from McLuhan and others) but that “environments are media”—the classical four elements of water, fire, sky/air, and earth. Such a cue leads us to consider the massive processes of fire...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 407–409.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of media materialism combines an archaeological approach, established in German media theory, with methods drawn from the work of Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, and Bruno Latour. On the face of it, there is something uniquely contemporary about the practices and procedures of listing. The present era...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., and relationships—our me-dia rightly treats us as the most important element in our own media ecologies. Our digital gadgets make this flattering world ubiquitous and permanently available for our play and perusal. Though McLuhan’s chapter “The Gadget Lover” in Understanding Media fails to mention the gadget...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (2): 193–214.
Published: 01 July 2005
...: Readings in Theory and Application . Belmont : Wadsworth , pp. 119 – 26 . McLuhan Marshall . 1964 . Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man . London : Sphere . Marx Karl . 1973 . Grundrisse . Trans. Nicolaus Martin . London : Penguin/New Left Books . Marx Karl...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 210–221.
Published: 01 July 2015
... to Aristotle’s aphorism “O my friends, there is no friend,” when there are too many friends, there are no friends. Here, Marshall McLuhan s (1994) technoutopia of absolute connectivity creates the lonely unworld of the disconnect , where the contact replaces the friend and the claustrophobic darkness...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 357–380.
Published: 01 November 2007
... an option? Or McLuhan’s “global village”? For Sloterdijk these are not suitable candidates. 11 This “sphere of all spheres” only exists politico-economically as “an inclusive concept of markets” (WIK: 231), the coherence of which is guaranteed by joint ventures. Isn’t this reason enough...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 383–388.
Published: 01 November 2010
... anticipations in On Pain of the Frankfurt School, Paul Virilio, Marshall McLuhan, and Friedrich Kittler on the growing “objectification of the individual” (30), the rise of civilized boredom as the “dissolution of pain in time” (13), the change of all-inclusive liberal education to an elitist edifice...
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