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Abstract
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.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Hlaf Title | i | ||
| Title | iii | ||
| Copyright | iv | ||
| Table of Contents | v | ||
| Foreword | vii | ||
| A Trialogic Introduction | 1 | ||
| Chapter One: The Form of Things to Come: A Review of Media and Formal Cause | 17 | ||
| Chapter Two: McLuhan, Formal Cause and the Future of Technological Mediation & Postscript | 23 | ||
| Chapter Three: Medium as ‘Metaform’: An Inquiry into the Life of Forms | 51 | ||
| Chapter Four: From Aristotle via Aquinas: Understanding Formal Cause in Marshall McLuhan’s Philosophy | 85 | ||
| Chapter Five: The Effects That Give Cause, and the Pattern That Directs | 93 | ||
| Chapter Six: McLuhan and Causality: Technological Determinism, Formal Cause and Emergence | 123 | ||
| Chapter Seven: Formal Cause: McLuhan’s ‘Objective Turn’? | 151 | ||
| Chapter Eight: Forms of Causality | 175 | ||
| Chapter Nine: Anti-Environmental Art and Its Role in Making Formal Cause Visible | 195 | ||
| Chapter Ten: Of Memes, Modes, Minor Audiences and Formal Cause | 225 | ||
| Chapter Eleven: After Effects, Before Causes: Technique, Artistic Intent and Formal Causality | 239 | ||
| Chapter Twelve: Re-Cognizing Formal Cause | 253 | ||
| Chapter Thirteen: Disrobing the Probe, Unpacking the Sprachage: Formal Cause or the Cause of Form Reframing McLuhan and the Kabbalah | 263 | ||
| About the Authors | 275 | ||
| Index | 279 | ||
| Back Cover | Back Cover |