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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prelude: McLuhan's Basic Probes and Perceptions
Introduction: Who/What Is Marshall McLuhan?
1 The Techno-Prophet as Poet and Trickster
2 McLuhan the Correspondent: His Writings as Probes, Percepts, and Affects
3 From the Trivium to the Tetrad: Media as Artefact and Language
4 The Professor and the Publicist: Tom Wolfe, the Firehouse Boys, and Marshall
5 McLuhanesque Ambivalence: Power and Cultural Production
6 McLuhan and the Cults: Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and Modernism
7 McLuhan as Prepostmodernist and Forerunner of French Theory
8 McLuhan as Trickster: The Poetry of Cliché
9 McLuhan, Joyce, and the Evolution of Cyberculture
10 Joyce, Light, and the Road to Digiculture
11 McLuhan as Modern Satirist
12 Conclusion: Rehabilitating the Arts and the Artist
APPENDIX A: Biographical Notes and The Medium Is the Rear View Mirror
APPENDIX B: Edmund Carpenter, "That Not-So-Silent Sea"
Notes
Bibliograpy
Index
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