麦克卢汉:一个人,两个理由

Q2 Social Sciences
Adam Pugen
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本文以数字主权问题为切入点,探讨马歇尔·麦克卢汉的媒体学术与人类主权的关系。文章认真对待麦克鲁汉将自己描述为托马斯·阿奎那的追随者,认为麦克鲁汉对格式塔心理学在文化和技术中的应用与阿奎那对亚里士多德亚型主义核心人物-地极性的生存发展是相似的。这种结构对等使我们能够从两个主要意义上理解McLuhan的地面概念——声学材料效力和触觉存在现实。我认为,将人类人工制品的存在基础与人类人工制品物质基础混为一谈,会破坏人类感知的形象结构,导致一种后人类形而上学,这与麦克卢汉的人文主义信息以及在数字世界中促进人类主权的努力都不一致。
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Hylomorphic McLuhan: One figure, two grounds
This article draws on the issue of digital sovereignty as a probe to explore the media scholarship of Marshall McLuhan as it relates to human sovereignty. Taking seriously McLuhan’s characterization of himself as a follower of Thomas Aquinas, the article argues that McLuhan’s application of gestalt psychology to culture and technology is analogical to Aquinas’s existential development of the figure–ground polarity central to Aristotelian hylomorphism. This structural equivalence allows us to understand McLuhan’s notion of ground in two primary senses – as acoustic material potency and as tactile existential actuality. I contend that conflating the existential Ground of human artefacts with the material ground of human artefacts obsolesces the figural structure of human perception, leading to a posthuman metaphysics that is at odds both with McLuhan’s humanistic message and with efforts to promote human sovereignty in the digital world.
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Explorations in Media Ecology
Explorations in Media Ecology Social Sciences-Cultural Studies
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