McLuhan and Baudrillard Masters of Implosion

Name: McLuhan and Baudrillard Masters of Implosion
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ISBN: 9780415190626

ISBN-10: 0415190622

ISBN-13: 9780415190626

Edition: 2002

Authors: Gary Genosko

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InMcLuhan and Baudrillard, Gary Genosko traces McLuhan's influence on the influential French postmodernist thinker, Jean Baudrillard. Gary Genosko argues that McLuhan's ideas have been far more influential than hitherto imagined in the development of postmodern theory. Tracing parallels between the so-called "McLuhan Cult" of the 1960's and the "Baudrillard Scene" of the 1980's, he explores how McLuhan's ideas persist and are distorted through Baudrillard's work, via concepts such as semiurgy, participation, reversibility, the primitive/tribal, and implosion. He argues that it is through the filter of Baudrillard's writings that McLuhan has had the greatest impact on contemporary cultural…

Book details

List price: $48.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/21/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Gary Genosko is Canada Research Chair in Technoculture and a professor in the Department of Sociology at Lakehead University.