Jaqueline McLeod Rogers

McLuhan's Techno-Sensorium City

Coming to Our Senses in a Programmed Environment

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents McLuhan as both an activist and a speculative urbanist who endeavored to alter human perception and imagine a sustainable future based on collective participation in a responsive urban environment—a techno-sensorium—in which technology is designed and programmed to be favorable to life and capable of engaging multiple senses.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9781793605245
• ISBN-10: 1793605246
• Artikelnr.: 59961724

Autorenporträt

Jaqueline McLeod Rogers is professor and chair of the Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication at the University of Winnipeg.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Unsettling Cities: Erudite Activism/Ongoing Influence
Chapter 1: Techno-City: From City to Village to Programmed Environment
Chapter 2: Sensorium-City: Coming to Our Senses
Chapter 3: McLuhan and Urban Planning: Collaborating with Jaqueline
Tyrwhitt and Mixing with Ekistics
Chapter 4: McLuhan and Other Contemporary Urban Designers: Gyorgy Kepes and
Jane Jacobs
Chapter 5: McLuhan Now: In New Materialist, Media Ecology, and Visual
Theory
Chapter 6: McLuhan Now: In City Theory, Architecture, and Art
References
About the Author