In 1992, Neil Postman presciently coined the term ‘technopoly’ to refer to ‘the surrender of culture to technology’. This book brings together a number of contributors from different disciplinary perspectives to analyse technopoly both as a concept and as it is seen and understood in contemporary society. Contributors present both analysis of and strategies for managing techno-social conflict, and they also open up a number of fruitful new lines of thought around emerging technological, social and even psychological forms.
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Foreword
Eric Mc Luhan
A Trialogic Introduction
Robert K. Logan, Corey Anton, and Lance Strate
Chapter One: The Form of Things to Come: A Review of Media and Formal Cause
Corey Anton
Chapter Two: Mc Luhan, Formal Cause and the Future of Technological Mediation & Postscript
Corey Anton
Chapter Three: Medium as ‘Metaform’: An Inquiry into the Life of Forms
Paolo Granata
Chapter Four: From Aristotle via Aquinas: Understanding Formal Cause in Marshall Mc Luhan’s Philosophy
Laura Trujillo Liñán
Chapter Five: The Effects That Give Cause, and the Pattern That Directs
Lance Strate
Chapter Six: Mc Luhan and Causality: Technological Determinism, Formal Cause and Emergence
Robert K. Logan
Chapter Seven: Formal Cause: Mc Luhan’s ‘Objective Turn’?
Yoni Van Den Eede
Chapter Eight: Forms of Causality
Chad Hansen
Chapter Nine: Anti-Environmental Art and Its Role in Making Formal Cause Visible
Steve Reagles
Chapter Ten: Of Memes, Modes, Minor Audiences and Formal Cause
Eric S. Jenkins
Chapter Eleven: After Effects, Before Causes: Technique, Artistic Intent and Formal Causality
Kirk Zamieroski
Chapter Twelve: Re-Cognizing Formal Cause
Peter Zhang
Chapter Thirteen: Disrobing the Probe, Unpacking the Sprachage: Formal Cause or the Cause of Form Reframing Mc Luhan and the Kabbalah
Adeena Karasick
Sobre el autor
Past-president of the Media Ecology Association (MEA) and a professional musician, Phil Rose (Ph.D.) has taught at a number of Canadian universities. He is author of the books Roger Waters and Pink Floyd: The Concept Albums (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015), Radiohead and the Global Movement for Change: ‘Pragmatism Not Idealism’ (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016), and, most recently, Radiohead: Music for a Global Future (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). In 2014, for the first time in its history, he hosted the annual convention of the MEA in Toronto at Ryerson University (now the Toronto Metropolitan University) on the theme ‘Confronting Technopoly’. In accordance with this event and its theme, he subsequently edited the book Confronting Technopoly: Charting a Course Towards Human Survival (Intellect Ltd, 2017). In 2019, he was the recipient of the MEA’s Edmund S. Carpenter Award for Career Achievement in Editing in the Field of Media Ecology, and, currently, he is president of The Tomkins Institute, an organization devoted to exploration of the work of the American personality and affect theorist Silvan Tomkins.
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