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McLuhan in Space
by Richard Cavell
Available from Powells Used Books
$33.25
on 10-15-2008
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Features
ISBN Number: 9780802086587
Written by: Cavell, Richard
Published by: University of Toronto Press
Subject: General
Subject: Sociology, Social Theory
Subject: Canadian
Copyright: 2003
Date of Publication: August 2003
Cover Type: Paperback
Written in: English
Illustrations: Yes
Number of Pages: 322
Book Size: 994x652x97 134
The first book to propose that Marshall McLuhan be read as a spatial theorist, McLuhan in Space argues that space is the single most consistent concept in McLuhan's vast and eclectic body of work. Richard Cavell demonstrates how McLuhan extended insights derived from advances in physics and artistic experimentation into a theory of acoustic space, which he then used to challenge the assumptions of visual space that had been produced through five hundred years of print culture. The notion of acoustic space provided McLuhan with a heuristic probe of prodigious range, allowing him to examine critically the many social and cultural forms of contemporary media production. It also enabled him to cross over intellectually from the purely theoretical realm into that of artistic production, where his interests in radical notions of spatial production were shared by a range of avantgarde artists from bpNichol to Glenn Gould, from John Cage to R. Murray Schafer, from Iain Baxter to the Fluxus artists - an artistic milieu in which McLuhan increasingly came to situate his work. Cavell's book is the first to examine McLuhan's work in light of this artistic backdrop, and the first to examine his contribution to Canadian studies.
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