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Cargando... Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!por Douglas Coupland
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A cent'anni dalla nascita, questo (del 2009) libro giunge in Italia a celebrare uno dei più citati e meno letti autori del 900. Il problema è: cosa aggiunge questo libro alla conoscenza di McLuhan se non qualche nota biografica (del resto rinvenuta altrove) di medio interesse? Da Coupland ci si aspetterebbe più di questo e quel che manca in questo libro (al di là degli sporadici vezzi del giocare con le parole dell'autore) è una lettura nuova di McLuhan, degna dell'autore di Generazione X e A. Sporadicamente questo riesce ed è dove Coupland mette più del suo. Il resto scorre senza particolari entusiasmi. ( ) From the title, I expected that this book was mostly going to give us Coupland's take on the significance of McLuhan's work. There is a little of that, but only a little, and in a footnote on page 147 Coupland makes clear this is a "general biography with limited space" (it turns out the title is quoting the words scripted for McLuhan's cameo in Annie Hall by Woody Allen). It's interesting both in terms of the short insights Coupland does have space to include, and, if you're a Coupland fan like me, it's clear that some of the qualities that he praises in McLuhan are ones that he has sought to emulate in his own novels. Not bad, could have been better. Coupland hat eine Biographie geschrieben, der man anmerkt, dass es selbst Schriftsteller ist, mit autobiographischen Zügen und dem, was ihn selbst an der zeit McLuhans interessiert. Mit hat das Buch einen ersten Einblick zu McLuhan gegeben, der zum Weiterlesen animiert, obwohl ich den Mann selbst - glaube ich - nicht besonders geschätzt hätte. Aus der Ferne sind er und seine Ideen jedenfalls sehr interessant. Nebenbei: Das Buch liest sich angenehm, unterhaltsam und schnell. :-)
In retelling McLuhan’s tale, Coupland makes the occasional misstep. He belabors some points, and his obligatory meta flourishes fall flat as often as they amuse. But those are minor irritations. This is an affectionate, wry portrait that provides a perfect introduction to one of the most influential and misunderstood thinkers of recent times. Like the man it chronicles, Coupland’s book is full of unconventional angles, ricochets and resonances. Rather than offering a doorstop-size addition to the Great Man canon, it comes in at just over 200 pages that nonetheless sprawl and unfold to their own idiosyncratic rhythm. Pertenece a las seriesPremiosListas de sobresalientes
Surveys the life and career of the social theorist best known for the quotation, "The medium is the message," who helped shape the culture of the 1960s and predicted the future of television and the rise of the Internet. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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