Mcluhan''s Techno-Sensorium City - Coming to Our Senses in a Programmed Environment

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Jaqueline McLeod Rogers, McLeod Rogers Jaqueline
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781793605245
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-524-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Urban communities