{"product_id":"taking-up-mcluhans-cause-perspectives-on-media-and-formal-causality-9781783206940","title":"Taking Up McLuhan's Cause: Perspectives on Media","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Very good essays on a crucial intellectual topic. I’m hopeful that this anthology will help kick off another McLuhan movement rooted in McLuhan’s place in the great tradition of philosophies of causation. '\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e -- Graham Harman, American University in Cairo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeword\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eric McLuhan\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Trialogic Introduction \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Robert K. Logan, Corey Anton, and Lance Strate\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter One: The Form of Things to Come: A Review of Media and Formal Cause\u003cbr\u003e Corey Anton\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Two: McLuhan, Formal Cause and the Future of Technological Mediation \u0026amp; Postscript\u003cbr\u003e Corey Anton\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Three: Medium as ‘Metaform’: An Inquiry into the Life of Forms \u003cbr\u003e Paolo Granata\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Four: From Aristotle via Aquinas: Understanding Formal Cause in Marshall McLuhan’s Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e Laura Trujillo Liñán\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Five: The Effects That Give Cause, and the Pattern That Directs \u003cbr\u003e Lance Strate\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Six: McLuhan and Causality: Technological Determinism, Formal Cause and Emergence\u003cbr\u003e Robert K. Logan\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: Formal Cause: McLuhan’s ‘Objective Turn’? \u003cbr\u003e Yoni Van Den Eede\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: Forms of Causality \u003cbr\u003e Chad Hansen\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Nine: Anti-Environmental Art and Its Role in Making Formal Cause Visible\u003cbr\u003e Steve Reagles\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Ten: Of Memes, Modes, Minor Audiences and Formal Cause \u003cbr\u003e Eric S. Jenkins\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Eleven: After Effects, Before Causes: Technique, Artistic Intent and Formal Causality\u003cbr\u003e Kirk Zamieroski\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Twelve: Re-Cognizing Formal Cause \u003cbr\u003e Peter Zhang\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Thirteen: Disrobing the Probe, Unpacking the Sprachage: Formal Cause or the Cause of Form Reframing McLuhan and the Kabbalah\u003cbr\u003e Adeena Karasick\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042266382679,"sku":"9781783206940","price":74.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781783206940.jpg?v=1750953691","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/taking-up-mcluhans-cause-perspectives-on-media-and-formal-causality-9781783206940","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}