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You are all invited to participate remotely to “The new sensorium: embodied perception, extensions of humanity and digital communication” This International centenary Marshall McLuhan & Walter J. Ong symposium, 20-21 April 2012, BIOS, Athens, is organized by the Communication, Media and Culture dept, Panteion University & the McLuhan Technology and Society Program, Coach House Institute, [...]
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The new sensorium: embodied perception, extensions of humanity & digital communication An international symposium, 20-21 April 2012, BIOS, Athens The Department of Communication, Media and Culture of Panteion University and its postgraduate programme in Cultural Management, in association with the Coach House Institute (CHI) and its McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology (MPCT) at [...]
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This is worth announcing again. Doors Open: 18:00, Lecture 18:30 (please allow sufficient time for Embassy security) - Address: Embassy of Canada, Leipziger Platz 17, 10117 Berlin The transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2012 will be held by Andrew Feenberg. Andrew Feenberg is Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology at the School of Communication of Simon Fraser University [...]
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Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) This article omits Edinburgh-born Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone at his parent’s house in Brantford, Ontario (about 100 kim west of Toronto), NOT in Boston as most Americans were taught and mistakenly believe. “The conception of the Telephone took place during that summer visit to my father’s residence in Brantford [...]
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Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2012 / Andrew Feenberg With the Marshall McLuhan Lecture, the transmediale invites a figure in the Canadian cultural landscape, whose work expands on McLuhan’s media theories in the context of contemporary culture and society, to present their insights. The Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2012 will be held by Andrew Feenberg. Lecture topic: Ten [...]
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March 29 – 31, 2012, University of Paderborn, Germany Aiming to bring together media scholars from the United States, Canada, and Germany, the conference continues a series of symposia that began in 2007. After “Re-Reading McLuhan. An International Conference on Media and Culture in the 21st Century” (2007), “Media Theory on the Move. Transatlantic Perspectives [...]
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2011 has been an intense and exciting year for the McLuhan celebration. It was also a great time, because we launched the International Journal of McLuhan Studies. The Digital Variant will be the first output of 2012: you can find a countdown on the webpage of the International Journal of McLuhan Studies (http://www.mcluhanstudies.com) to announce [...]
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Friedrich Kittler and the rise of the machine Kittler, who died this year, suggested we weren’t masters of our technological domain, but rather that we were its pawns The Terminator When Canadian-American media theorist Marshall McLuhan wrote “Friedrich Kittler, the German post-structuralist philosopher and media theorist who died in October, was of a more dystopian [...]
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German Documentary: M. McLuhan: Visionary of the Media Age from Norm Friesen on Vimeo. This is courtesy of my colleague Norm Friesen, from his website (link at bottom): German Documentary: M. McLuhan: Visionary of the Media Age from Norm Friesen on Vimeo. (The entire broadcast can be viewed here.) Interviewer: …but [McLuhan] wasn’t a systematizer Martina Leeker (Media Studies, Cologne): …that makes [...]
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A Man for All Media
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Pierre Babin, a “Giant” in Catholic Communication, Has Left Us
Lyon, May 9, 2012 (SIGNIS) – Pierre Babin is no longer with us. The Founder of CREC and pioneer of the “Symbolic Way” died on 9th May 2012. He goes to the Christ that he strived to bring to all. We remember him as a man of faith, open, convivial and above all a communicator. [...]
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