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- ISBN 9781783206940
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 178 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2017
- Publisher: Intellect
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This book brings together a number of prominent scholars to explore a relatively under-studied area of Marshall McLuhan’s thought: his idea of formal cause and the role that formal cause plays in the emergence of new technologies and in structuring societal relations. Aiming to open a new way of understanding McLuhan’s thought in this area, and to provide methodological grounding for future media ecology research, the book runs the gamut, from contributions that directly support McLuhan’s arguments to those that see in them the germs of future developments in emergent dynamics and complexity theory.
Robert K. Logan is Professor Emeritus of physics and in School of the Environment, University of Toronto. He is a fellow of St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto. He is also the chief scientist at the Strategic Innovation Lab, Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD).
Corey Anton is professor of communication studies at Grand Valley State University and a fellow of the International Communicology Institute. He is author of Selfhood and Authenticity (SUNY Press, 2001), Sources of Significance: Worldly Rejuvenation and Neo-Stoic Heroism (Purdue University Press, 2010), Communication Uncovered: General Semantics and Media Ecology (IGS Press, 2010) and, most recently, How Non-Being Haunts Being: Possibilities, Morality and Death Acceptance (Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 2020). Past editor of the journal Explorations in Media Ecology, past president of the Media Ecology Association, Anton currently serves as vice-president of the Institute of General Semantics.
Contact: Grand Valley State University, 210 LSH, 1 Campus Drive, School of Communications, Allendale, MI 49401-9403, USA.
Lance Strate is professor of communication and media studies, and a past president of the Media Ecology Association. He is the author of seven books, including Amazing Ourselves to Death: Neil Postman’s Brave New World Revisited (Peter Lang, 2014), Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition (Peter Lang, 2017) and the poetry collection, Thunder at Darwin Station (NeoPoiesis, 2014).
