The global village : transformations in world life and media in the 21st century / Marshall McLuhan and Bruce R. Powers.
Series: Communication and societyPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1989Copyright date: ©1989Description: xiii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780195079104
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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.
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.
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