After McLuhan

What is the Matrix?

Test

Intertext

Intertext

Intertext

Baudrillard

Situationists

A choice

Technocracy

Anti-science movement of the 1970s

DDT

If you love this planet.

Elizabeth Eisenstein

Neil Postman

Technopoly

The medium is still the message

The Judgment of Thamus

Manifesto

Technomania

1984

WELL

Magna Carta

Third Wave

Agora

Agora

Declaration of Independence

Panopticon

Panopticon

SESSION ON "LEARNING STYLES"
Wed Oct 27 from 3-4:30 in Social Science Lounge: S752 Ross

Presentation by Brian Poser, Learning Skills Program, Counselling and
Development Centre

Participants will have a chance to assess their own 'learning style'
and hear how to support a variety of learning styles in their
teaching.
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SESSION ON "HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR ACADEMIC WRITING"
On Wednesday November 10, 2004, beginning at 3:30 pm in the Winters College Senior Common Room, we will present an interactive lecture and question and answer session by Professor Priscila Uppal. The topic of the
session is HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR ACADEMIC WRITING.

This talk will focus on demystifying the writing process (and grading process!) for the production of effective
academic writing assignments at the undergraduate university level. Professor Uppal will discuss the assumptions
and expectations of learning in undergraduate university courses and how students can best prepare themselves to meet the challenges of critical reading, thinking, and writing. The interactive lecture is intended to be relevant to
students from a variety of disciplines and will offer students an adaptable model for the writing process from the
beginning to end of an assignment. The interactive approach is intended to encourage questions and discussion of
academic writing student concerns.

McLuhan

McLuhan

Understanding Media

"The cellphone is not a phone any more than a computer is a computer," says Federman. "It's a device that delivers content."
Called a "mobile" by most of the rest of the world, the cellphone can serve as a database of calendars and contacts, social-convener, mate-finder, camera, pager, social-protest organizer, electronic wallet, music machine, fashion statement, and, oh yes, a wireless telephone.
The mobile "allows us to be ubiquitously connected," says Federman, and by extension, "be in pervasive proximity to our tribe, no matter how distantly those members are scattered."
McLuhan's other famous idea, of the global village, of course, is evident to all. Satellite TV images, the Internet, email and the cellphone all shrink our world.

I. John Harvey. "Now the Mobile is the Message" -- The Toronto Star, November 11, 2004.

McLuhan's laws of technology adapted to fit the mobile phone model:

The laws hold that all technology exhibits four effects:
It contains an element of retrieval. It brings back something that already exists. In the mobile's case, the telephone.
It enhances existing technology. Mobiles cut the wires associated with phones.
It renders something obsolete. The mobile eliminates the need to be in a specific place, rendering land phones somewhat obsolete.
It reverses progress to some degree. By overdoing the new, we run out of benefits and slip into what McLuhan called "reversal," which, in this case, might take the form of the intrusion of the mobile into our lives and our inability to escape its siren call.

I. John Harvey. "Now the Mobile is the Message" -- The Toronto Star, November 11, 2004.

McLuhan talks

McLuhan festival

McLuhan for Managers

The Bias of Communication

Time-biased media

Space-biased media

McLuhan's Wake by Kevin McMahon

The Medium is the Message

James Joyce

Finnegan's Wake

Wyndham Lewis

Ezra Pound

Three Ages of Man:

1. The Preliterate era
2. The Gutenberg Age
3. The Electronic Age

Eden

The Global Village

Media: Hot and Cool

Cool

Hot

Hottest

Cool

Cool

Hot

Hot

Tekmology. Is it alright?

Teen Sex and Cell Phones

Teen Sex and the Edsel

Teen Sex and Paper

Teen Sex and the Chariot

Greek Mythology

Pandora's Box

Prometheus

Prometheus Technologies

Minotaur

Icarus and Dedalus

Renaissance

Bacon

Bacon's New Atlantis

Cogito Ergo Sum

Early technological innovation

The mechanized clock

Industrial Revolution

Arkwright mill

Luddites

Manchester mills

Mary Barton

William Blake

World Too Much With Us

Thoreau's House

Walden Pond

20c

The Futurists

Vorticism

Brave New World

Lewis Mumford's Three Epochs:

Eotechnic
Paleotechnic
Neotechnic

Pyramids

Ellul

Jacques Ellul's four rules:

First, all technical progress has its price.
Second, at each stage it raises more and greater problems than it solves.
Third, its harmful effects are inseparable from its beneficial effects.
Fourth, it has a great number of unforeseen effects.

McLuhan Festival