Cultural Theory
In: Evolutionary studies in imaginative culture, Volume 5, Issue 2, p. 139-142
ISSN: 2472-9876
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In: Evolutionary studies in imaginative culture, Volume 5, Issue 2, p. 139-142
ISSN: 2472-9876
In: Evolutionary studies in imaginative culture, Volume 5, Issue 1, p. 117-120
ISSN: 2472-9876
In: International journal of cultural policy: CP, Volume 20, Issue 3, p. 360-362
ISSN: 1477-2833
In: Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Volume 27, Issue 2, p. 284
In: The year's work in critical and cultural theory: YWCCT, Volume 5, Issue 1, p. 369-386
ISSN: 1471-681X
In: Telos, Volume 15, p. 75-123
ISSN: 0040-2842, 0090-6514
MARSHALL MCLUHAN DEFINES HIS OWN APPROACH AS 'SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT' INVOLVING A STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS CONCERNED WITH THE INNER DYNAMICS OF THE FORM & CONFIGURATION. MCLUHAN'S GENERAL SCHEMA CONCERNS AN HISTORICAL PERIODICITY BUILT ON CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS EFFECTED BY CHANGES IN COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDING TO SENSORY STRESS. THE PERIODIZATION YIELDS 4 STAGES: (1) A (PRIMITIVE) COOL AUDIBLE TRIBAL CULTURE WITH THE ORAL TECHNOLOGY OF SPEECH, (2) A (PRECAPITALIST) HOT VISUAL CULTURE WITH THE SCRIBAL TECHNOLOGY OF THE PHONETIC ALPHABET, (3) A (CAPITALIST) HOT VISUAL CULTURE WITH THE MECHANICAL TECHNOLOGY OF PRINT, & (4) THE CURRENT (MONOPOLY CAPITALIST) COOL AUDIBLE-TACTILE CULTURE WITH THE ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY OF TV & COMPUTER. THE PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT IN MCLUHAN'S THOUGHT CAN BE DISCERNED AS I ('36-'51), II ('52-'58) & III ('59-PRESENT), IN WHICH HE EVOLVES FROM AN ABSTRACT NEGATIVITY TO A COMPLETELY UNCRITICAL POSITIVITY. MCLUHAN DOES NOT CONSIDER COMMUNICATION PRIMARILY AS SR AMONG PEOPLE, BUT AS RELATIONS BETWEEN HUMAN BEINGS & THINGS, & CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THINGS THEMSELVES. MCLUHAN'S TECHNOCRATIC IDEOLOGY TOTALLY EXCLUDES HISTORICAL MOVEMENTS & QUALITATIVE CHANGES WHEN IT EXAMINES FUTURE NEEDS, INTERESTS, VALUES, & GOALS. MCLUHAN FAILS TO RECOGNIZE THAT A PILLAR OF NEOCAPITALIST INTEGRATION IS THE PRODUCTION, MANIPULATION, & APPROPRIATION OF INFORMATION, & THAT THE MEANS OF COMMUNICATION IN THE US ARE STRUCTURALLY & ORGANIZATIONALLY HIERARCHICAL CHANNELS FOR DOMINATION & CULTURAL IMPERIALISM. MCLUHAN'S WORK IS PERMEATED BY TECHNOLOGICAL FETISHISM, CYBERNETIC REIFICATION, IDEALIST MATERIALISM, & A TYPE OF SECULAR RELIGIOSITY. A. KARMEN.
In: Teoria politica: Theory of politics = Teoría politica, Volume 14, Issue 2, p. 91-108
ISSN: 0394-1248
In: Telos: critical theory of the contemporary, Volume 1973, Issue 15, p. 75-123
ISSN: 1940-459X
In: European journal of communication, Volume 18, Issue 2, p. 265-270
ISSN: 0267-3231
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Issue 71, p. 123-126
ISSN: 0725-5136
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Issue 71, p. 123
ISSN: 0725-5136
In: Innovation: the European journal of social science research, Volume 16, Issue 4, p. 315-317
ISSN: 1469-8412
In: The year's work in critical and cultural theory: YWCCT, Volume 28, Issue 1, p. 1-20
ISSN: 1471-681X
AbstractThis chapter reviews black critical and cultural theory under the following headings: 1. Introduction; 2. Cultural Studies (Kara Keeling, Queer Times, Black Futures, Jennifer C. Nash, Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality, and Tiffany Lethabo King, The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies); 3. History and Sociology (Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, and Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code); 4. Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (Therí Alyce Pickens, Black Madness :: Mad Blackness).
In: Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Volume 24, Issue 1, p. 141
In: The year's work in critical and cultural theory: YWCCT, Volume 26, Issue 1, p. 248-264
ISSN: 1471-681X