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McLuhan in Space : A Cultural Geography.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (343 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442677135
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: McLuhan in SpaceDDC classification:
  • 304.2/3
LOC classification:
  • P92.5.M3 C384 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Sigla -- Preface: 'Space' in McLuhan -- PART ONE: SPACED -- 1 A Short History of Space -- Picnic in Space -- Spatial Form -- Time (and Space) and Western Man -- Space and Time and Architecture -- Canadian Spaces -- 'The Problem of Space' -- Getting Spaced -- Acoustic Spaces -- 2 Mechanization and Its Discontents -- The Mechanical Bride -- Mechanization Takes Command -- Works of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- Psychopathologies -- 3 The Physics of Flatland -- Explorations in Space -- The Invention of Euclid -- Flatland Revisited -- From Landscape to Field -- Without Perspective -- 4 Prosthetic Aesthetics -- Senses of Space -- Obscurely Cameral -- Tonal Sensations -- Understanding Spaces -- A Rhetoric of Spaces -- Res Extensa -- Echoing Narcissus -- Prosthetic Aesthetics -- Interface: The Intellectual as Votes -- PART TWO: SCAPED -- 5 Artiste de livres -- Art scapes -- The Spatial Arts -- From Images, to Vortices -- Verbi-Voco-Visual -- The Laocoön Re(vi)sited -- Through the Looking Point -- Empathic Spaces -- Massaging the Medium -- Work Books -- 6 Visible Speech -- The Culture of Orality (and Literacy) -- Concrete Assays -- 'Visible Speech' -- 'Typospace' -- Spelling 'Eyear' -- Space Operas -- Sounding Texts -- 'Quasi Parlando' -- 7 Art without Walls -- Voices of Silence -- Spacetime Environments -- Concepts and Contexts -- Corporate Art -- Psychogeographies -- In Flux -- 8 Borderlines -- (Counter)Environments -- Bless/Counter/Blast -- Garrisons and Galaxies -- Understanding Canada -- Clichés and Archetypes -- Living Dialogues -- Postface: McLuhan in Space -- Notes -- Details of Sigla -- 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.
Summary: Demonstrates how McLuhan extended insights derived from advances in physics and artistic experimentation into a theory of acoustic space which he then used to challenge the assumptions of visual space that had been produced through print culture.
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Intro -- Contents -- Sigla -- Preface: 'Space' in McLuhan -- PART ONE: SPACED -- 1 A Short History of Space -- Picnic in Space -- Spatial Form -- Time (and Space) and Western Man -- Space and Time and Architecture -- Canadian Spaces -- 'The Problem of Space' -- Getting Spaced -- Acoustic Spaces -- 2 Mechanization and Its Discontents -- The Mechanical Bride -- Mechanization Takes Command -- Works of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- Psychopathologies -- 3 The Physics of Flatland -- Explorations in Space -- The Invention of Euclid -- Flatland Revisited -- From Landscape to Field -- Without Perspective -- 4 Prosthetic Aesthetics -- Senses of Space -- Obscurely Cameral -- Tonal Sensations -- Understanding Spaces -- A Rhetoric of Spaces -- Res Extensa -- Echoing Narcissus -- Prosthetic Aesthetics -- Interface: The Intellectual as Votes -- PART TWO: SCAPED -- 5 Artiste de livres -- Art scapes -- The Spatial Arts -- From Images, to Vortices -- Verbi-Voco-Visual -- The Laocoön Re(vi)sited -- Through the Looking Point -- Empathic Spaces -- Massaging the Medium -- Work Books -- 6 Visible Speech -- The Culture of Orality (and Literacy) -- Concrete Assays -- 'Visible Speech' -- 'Typospace' -- Spelling 'Eyear' -- Space Operas -- Sounding Texts -- 'Quasi Parlando' -- 7 Art without Walls -- Voices of Silence -- Spacetime Environments -- Concepts and Contexts -- Corporate Art -- Psychogeographies -- In Flux -- 8 Borderlines -- (Counter)Environments -- Bless/Counter/Blast -- Garrisons and Galaxies -- Understanding Canada -- Clichés and Archetypes -- Living Dialogues -- Postface: McLuhan in Space -- Notes -- Details of Sigla -- 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.

Demonstrates how McLuhan extended insights derived from advances in physics and artistic experimentation into a theory of acoustic space which he then used to challenge the assumptions of visual space that had been produced through print culture.

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