Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 12
INTRODUCTION: COINCIDING REALMS......Page 16
The game plan......Page 19
McLuhan  Company......Page 33
THE RELUCTANT EXPLICATOR......Page 39
Analogy and logic......Page 41
The digital fulfillment, part I......Page 43
The digital fulfillment, part II......Page 45
McLuhan\'s medium......Page 47
NET CONTENT......Page 50
The medium as content: writing up on the screen......Page 51
The user as content online......Page 54
Media within media within mediathe primacy of speech and the exception of photography......Page 56
THE SONG OF THE ALPHABET IN CYBERSPACE......Page 59
The acoustic world, heard offline......Page 61
Script, print, cyberspace......Page 63
The acoustic world, seen online......Page 64
A cyberspace sans alphabet?......Page 66
ONLINE ANGELS......Page 70
Virtual virtue and sex discarnate......Page 72
God\'s-eye views......Page 75
The devil in the DNA......Page 77
FROM VOYEUR TO PARTICIPANT......Page 80
Village of children, village of voyeurs......Page 82
Politics in the online global village......Page 85
Business in the online global village......Page 90
THE FATE OF THE CENTER......Page 95
God\'s space......Page 96
Online education everywhere......Page 98
The gravity of government......Page 101
Monopoly online?......Page 103
The city eternal: analog as digital......Page 107
THE MIND BEHIND THE SCREEN......Page 110
Science and the aesthetician......Page 111
A kinetic understanding of media......Page 113
The peripatetic couch potato......Page 116
The screens and the skies......Page 117
WAY COOL TEXT......Page 120
Bare essentials of the media thermometer......Page 122
Cultural consequences......Page 125
Text interactive......Page 128
THE RUSTED GATEKEEPER......Page 134
Janus ascendant......Page 136
Gatekeeping mentality......Page 140
Filtration versus evaluation......Page 142
From gatekeeper to matchmaker......Page 144
SERFS TO SURF......Page 147
Inside-out on the phone......Page 148
The home office: friend of the family......Page 150
The home office as friend: counter-indications......Page 153
Toy, mirror, and art......Page 155
BEAUTY MACHINES......Page 160
Of delicatessen and convertibles......Page 162
Television as art in the digital age......Page 164
First loves and nostalgia versus art......Page 167
The Internet as mainstream......Page 169
BALINESE AT WORK ONLINE......Page 173
Mythic proportions and Herculean tasks: vertical vs. horizontal......Page 175
Theremin as therapy for art......Page 179
Virtual virtuosity......Page 184
THROUGH A GLASS, BRIGHTLY......Page 188
The Web of rear-view mirrors......Page 190
Rear-view mirror in the toolbox......Page 193
Prescriptions for the future......Page 197
SPIRALS OF MEDIA EVOLUTION......Page 202
Basics of the tetrad......Page 204
Spirit of the digital age......Page 206
Deep retrieval and the digital arts......Page 209
Reversal of the digital age......Page 212
Reversal of media determinism......Page 215
Bibliography......Page 219
Index......Page 227