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Synopsis The desire to bring the perfect artificial woman to life is as old as Pygmalion, but new technologies are making its realization ever more likely. Limning the border between fantasy and reality, this provocative and eye-opening documentary journeys from the outer limits of science fiction—visiting classic scenes of fembots in film and television—to the [...]
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Neil Postman(1931-2003) was another educator, colleague and friend of Marshall McLuhan, who acknowledged McLuhan’s influence on his own thinking about the media, technology, society, education and culture. Commenting on his first encounter with McLuhan Postman remarked, “I was enormously impressed with the range of his knowledge and also with the intellectual daring that he displayed.” Postman [...]
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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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Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968) Swiss art historian’s influence on Marshall McLuhan to be discussed today Marshall McLuhan might be considered by many as one of the prominent modern Canadian intellectuals, but he was actually heavily influenced by a lesser-known Swiss art historian and architectural critic, according to a visual arts professor who will lecture on the subject today. [...]
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This is a typographic animation of Marshall McLuhan’s ideas about information sourcing essentially predicts the Information Age, the Internet and Internet search engines, especially Google. His words are taken from a 1966 interview.Graphic by by Amer Alkhatib .
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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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by Maria Popova - 30 December, 2011 What the golden age of television has to do with human nature and today’s Internet intellectuals. It seems fitting that we conclude the year that marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of iconic media theorist Marshall McLuhan with one of his timeless and remarkably timely observations, which in just 30 [...]
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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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From landscapeurbanism.com : understanding media: Marshall McLuhan “The art of making pictorial statements in a precise and repeatable form is one that we have long taken for granted in the West. But it is usually forgotten that without prints and blueprints, without maps and geometry, the world of modern sciences and technologies would hardly [...]
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A Man for All Media
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Lewis Lapham: A McLuhanist Perspective on Post-Literate Media
MONDAY, APR 23, 2012 Post-literate media The more data we collect via Google, YouTube and Facebook, the less likely we are to understand what it means - BY LEWIS LAPHAM This originally appeared on TomDispatch. I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. – Emperor Charles V But in [...]
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