TY  - BOOK
AU  - McLuhan,Marshall
AU  - Powers,Bruce R.
TI  - The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century 
T2  - Communication and society
SN  - 9780195079104
PY  - 1989///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Technology
N1  - Includes index and bibliography: page [199]-205; I. Explorations in visual and acoustic space. The resonating interval ; The wheel and the axle ; Visual and acoustic space ; East meets west in the hemispheres ; Plato and angelism ; Hidden effects -- II. The global effects of video-related technologies. Global robotism : the satisfactions ; Global robotism : the dissatisfactions ; Angels to robots : from Euclidean space to Einsteinian space -- III. The United States and Canada : the border as a resonating interval. Epilogue : Canada as counter-environment -- IV. A glossary of tetrads. Tedradic glossary
N2  - The premise for this book is the distinction between what the authors call'visual space', which is the left-brain, linear, quantitative reasoning tradition of the West, beginning with Plato and Aristotle, as against'acoustic space', which is equated to the holistic approach of the East
ER  -