At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination: A Reappraisal of Marshall McLuhanJohn Moss, John George Moss, Linda M. Morra University of Ottawa Press, 2004 - 261 pages At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon standing in line in Woody Allen's Annie Hall. Given McLuhan's prominent status in many academic disciplines, the contributors reflect a multi-disciplinary background. John Moss and Linda Morra chose the essays from a gathering of McLuhan's academic devotees. The contribution - from "McLuhan as Medium" and "McLuhan in Space" to "What McLuhan Got Wrong" and "Trouble in the Global Village" - to provide a kaleidoscope of new views. As Moss writes of the collected essays: "Some are big and some are small, some exegetic and some confessional, some stand as major statements and others are sidelong glances; some resonate with the concerns of public discourse and others are private or privileged or impious and provocative. Each consists of many parts, each a design on its own. They speak to each other...they may have come together as one version of what happened." Published in English. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Move to the Glebe | 7 |
McLuhan as Medium | 17 |
McLuhan and Canadian Communication Thought | 37 |
Marshall McLuhan and the Modernist Writers Legacy | 63 |
McLuhan and the Aesthetic Moment | 85 |
Wilfred Watsons Encounter with Marshall McLuhan 19571988 | 95 |
A Revaluation in the Postcolonial Context | 147 |
Does the Space Make Differences? Some Geographical Remarks about Spatial Information between Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan | 153 |
McLuhan in Space | 165 |
Making Sense of McLuhan Space | 185 |
What McLuhan Got Wrong about the Global Village and Some Things He Didnt Forsee | 207 |
Wychewode Park | 223 |
Trouble in the Global Village | 227 |