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A collection of publications resulting from research, events, and initiatives held at the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology.
For active calls for papers, see Events + News.
Sensing of the Self, Society, and the Environment
Article by Steve Mann
in IEEE Sensors (Fall 2020)
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A Manifesto for the Broken Machine
Research article by Sarah Sharma
in Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies (Fall 2020)
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Transnational Feminisms and Digital Islamophobia
Edited by Zeinab Farokhi and Yasmin Jiwani
Special Issue of Islamophobia Studies Journal (Fall 2020)
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Many McLuhans or None at All
Edited by Sarah Sharma
Special Issue of Canadian Journal of Communication (Fall 2019)
READ THE EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION + ACCESS JOURNAL
This special issue of CJC is based on the Many McLuhans Symposium at the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology that celebrated and marked the designation of the Marshall McLuhan Library held at the University of Toronto and the McLuhan Archives held at the Library and Archives Canada into the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. The event was organized and sponsored by the Library Archives of Canada, The McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology at the Faculty of Information, and the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS
Guest Editorial: Many McLuhans or None at All
Sarah Sharma
Reading over McLuhan's Shoulder
John Durham Peters
Reading McLuhan Reading Ulysses
Alan Galey
The McLuhan-Innis Field: In Search of Media Theory
Liam Cole Young
The (Black) Elephant in the Room: McLuhan and the Racial
Armond Towns
Distributed Intelligence: Silk-Weaving and the Jacquard Mechanism
Ganaele Langlois
McLuhan and Posthumanism: Extending the Techno-Animal Embrace
Jody Berland
Flash, Spirit, Plex, Stretch: A Trans-Disciplinary View of the Media Sensorium
Rhonda N. McEwen
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Transnational Feminism in a Time of Digital Islamophobia
Conference report by Zeinab Farokhi
Feminist Media Studies Journal (Fall 2019)
A conference report covering the Digital Islamophobia Working Group's event held at the Centre on March 8, 2019. The working group is in the process of turning the research from this symposium into a special issue edited by Yasmin Jiwani, Zeinab Farokhi and other members of the working group.
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Log Out! The Platform Economy and Worker Resistance
Edited by Alessandro Delfanti
Special Issue of Notes from Below (Spring 2019)
(based on his McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology LogOut Symposium held March 2018)
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MsUnderstanding Media
Edited by Sarah Sharma and Rianka Singh
Duke University Press (under contract)
Preface: The Centre on the Margins
by Sarah Sharma
Introduction to MsUnderstanding Media: McLuhan and Feminist Media Studies
by Sarah Sharma with Rianka Singh
PART I: Retrieving McLuhan's Media
Transporting Blackness: Black Materialist Media Theory
by Armond Towns
Sidewalks of Concrete and Code
by Shannon Mattern
Hardwired
by Nick Taylor
Textile: The Uneasy Media
by Ganaele Langlois
PART II: Thinking with McLuhan: An Invitation
The Incubator and the Urge to Continuous Use
by Sara Martel
WifeSaver: Tupperware and the Unfortunate Spoils of Containment
by Brooke Erin Duffy and Jeremy Packer
“Can Miss File Misfile?” The Filing Cabinet, Automatic Memory, and Gender
by Craig Robertson
Computers Made of Paper, Genders Made of Cards
by Cait McKinney
Sky High: Platforms and the Feminist Politics of Visibility
by Rianka Singh and Sarah Banet-Weiser
PART III: Media after McLuhan
Scanning for Black Data
A Conversation with Nasma Ahmed and Ladan Siad
3D Printing and Digital Colonialism
A Conversation with Morehshin Allahyari
Toward a Media Theory of the Digital Bundle
A Conversation with Jennifer Wemigwans
Afterward
by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
The CBC Spark Guide to Civilization, Part Four: Attention
Featuring Sarah Sharma (Dec 2020)
Description: We have been lamenting our loss of focus and blaming our short attention spans on technology for ages. But are our attention spans actually dwindling—or is it just that there are so many things clamouring for our attention all the time?
CBC Ideas: Everything at Once
Featuring Sarah Sharma (Jan 2021)
Description: Out of synch? No wonder: the pandemic clock is messing with us. Taking measure of a strange moment, with writers, sociologists, a therapist, and a mathematician.
Climate Change, COVID-19, and the Space Cabin: A Politics of Care in the Shadow of Space Colonization
by Réka Gál (McLuhan PhD Fellow)
in #9 Climate Imaginary Reader (Oct 2020)
Going to Work in Mommy's Basement
by Sarah Sharma
in Boston Review (June 2018)
Exit and the Extensions of Man
by Sarah Sharma
in Transmediale Online Journal (April 2017)
Beyond Behaviourism and Black Boxes: The Future of Media Theory
Interview with Wendy Chun, Warren Sack, and Sarah Sharma
Chapter in Affective Politics of Digital Media: Propaganda by Other Means (Routledge 2020)
Eds. Megan Boler & Elizabeth Davis