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Crises Then as Now

Marshall McLuhan, with Urbanist Jaqueline Tyrwhitt and Artist Gyorgy Kepes

by Jaqueline Rogers (Author)
©2025 Textbook XIV, 174 Pages
Series: Understanding Media Ecology, Volume 15

Summary

This book explores how Marshall McLuhan, with urbanist Jaqueline Tyrwhitt and artist György Kepes, responded to crises in the 60s and 70s similar to what we now face: human-to-human violence on a planetary scale, carving inequities and fomented by arms and mediation; catastrophic human to non-human relations, with human activity sparking irreversible (and accelerating) environmental degradation; imbalanced human-to-machine relations, with computational decision-making outstripping human intervention.
McLuhan, Tyrwhitt, and Kepes called for redesign to stimulate sensory engagement and participation. Merging art and science knowledge was requisite to creating counter environments and livable futures and allowing humans to work with (rather than under or over) machines. Placed in dialogue, the three figures map out paths of hope as well as danger zones – geographies that speak to our present as we grapple with the role of technology in infrastructure and environment, art and culture.

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Details

Pages
XIV, 174
Publication Year
2025
ISBN (PDF)
9781433197833
ISBN (ePUB)
9781433197840
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433197826
ISBN (Softcover)
9781433197819
DOI
10.3726/b22410
Language
English
Publication date
2025 (January)
Keywords
Anthropocène crises catastrophe change and transformation endings extinctions figure and ground futures human-to-non-human ntersectionality senses sensorium sensory training perception cognition consciousness relationality accelerant media technology art computational media and AI
Published
New York, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, Oxford, 2025. XIV, 174 pp.
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Biographical notes

Jaqueline Rogers (Author)

Jaqueline McLeod Rogers is a Professor of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication at the University of Winnipeg. She published McLuhan’s Techno-Sensorium City: Coming to our Senses in a Programmed Environment (2020). She has published articles linking McLuhan to Suzanne Langer, to environmental issues, to human rights, and to parenting practices.

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