Veja em Português Presentation of the Brazilian edition (Prof.Anisio Teixeira) (11) Introduction (15) Prologue (17) The Gutenberg Galaxy (31) King Lear is a perfect illustration of the process of dispossession suffered by men as they move from a world of roles or functions to a world of occupations or tasks. (35) King Lear is the …
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Lista completa dos Tablets
See it in English Lista completa dos tabletes com a página onde se encontram: (passam a ser pointers dentro do documento para acesso direto) Apresentação da edição brasileira (Prof.Anisio Teixeira) (11) Introdução (15) Prólogo (17) A Galáxia de Gutenberg (31) Rei Lear é perfeita ilustração do processo de despojamento sofrido pelos homens, ao passarem de um mundo …
What this is all about
Veja em Português I discovered McLuhan in 1995, working as a researcher at the S.Carlos School of Engineering, USP University of São Paulo, on a CNPq scholarship whose objective was to improve the quality of teaching, in this case, Engineering. At the S.Carlos Production Engineering School they had installed a room equipped with some 30 …
Printing power and its implications in Literacy
Another confusing and kind of obscure subject of McLuhan in his The Gutenberg Galaxy is the influence of the printing press and literacy. The problem starts with with the framing of the subject. Nowadays we have a tendency to measure the illiterate rate, i.e., how many illiterates, or persons without the ability to read and …
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What if he was right?
Wolfe-ing Down McLuhan: Marshall McLuhan Speaks Special Collection: Introduction by Tom Wolfe by Lance Strate, Chair, Department of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University, New York. With the publication of his November, 1965 New York magazine article, “What If He’s Right?” Tom Wolfe’s place in the McLuhan mythos was assured. Others may have worked harder and …
Printing, Nationalism and Modern States
The Black Stain ; Alsace-Lorraine was the black stain of France. The ceding of the region to the German Empire in 1871 deeply hurt the French people. The desire for revenge in France was wide-spread. One rather confusing and kind of obscure tenures of McLuhan in his The Gutenberg Galaxy is the influence of the printing …
Library and Archives Canada on McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan in the Memory of the World Register ARCHIVED – Old Messengers, New Media: The Legacy of Innis and McLuhan Although this information mixes up Harold Innis with Marshall McLuhan in a perhaps biased way, as I discuss at the end of this entry, it is one of the best all around comprehensive source …
McLuhan’s Mosaic Style
Perhaps the most famous creation of McLuhan is his mosaic style in his book the Gutenberg Galaxy. Discussion here is based on “glosses’ or “probing experiences” there. Although it is presented as a printed subject as in a book, having only one figure, it is always a description, although in a obscure way, of multidimensional …
Speculation and Reflection on McLuhan in the 21st century
I selected two jobs aimed at the subject above. The first is “Canonic Anti-Text: Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media” from Joshua Meyrowitz , which can be read there and the other I transcribed here because there was a lot of references that deserved to be fully identified to the reader. The second job, to which I …
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Outros Tabletes que discutem as consequências de Gutenberg
Quando a tecnologia estende ou prolonga um de nossos sentidos, a cultura sofre uma transposição tão rápida quanto rápido for o processo de interiorização da nova tecnologia (Tablete 70) Embora o tema principal desse livro seja a Galáxia de Gutenberg ou uma configuração de eventos, que está muito além do mundo do alfabeto e da …
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Marshall McLuhan & Gutenberg 