A world without walls and an electronic culture without limit

Q2 Social Sciences Explorations in Media Ecology Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.1386/eme_00141_1
J. Meyers
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This article explores the contours of McLuhan’s prescience in the present media ecology at the intersection of the simultaneous global crises represented by authoritarian nationalism, the COVID-19 pandemic and anthropogenic climate change. This article considers the emergence of new forms of collective political subjectivity and tribalism occasioned by the internet and social media and reflects on the apparent limits of our ability to leverage technical expertise or knowledge to solve persistent problems in the material world. Finally, this article reflects on the historical instance of electronic communications media and how it intensively accelerates and compresses time in the conceptual, cultural and affective space in what Neil Postman termed ‘Technocracy’ to rethink twentieth-century ideas of the citizen subject.
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一个没有围墙的世界和一个没有限制的电子文化
本文探讨了麦克鲁汉在当前媒体生态中的先见之明的轮廓,在以威权民族主义、新冠肺炎大流行和人为气候变化为代表的同时发生的全球危机的交叉点上。本文考虑了互联网和社交媒体引发的新形式的集体政治主体性和部落主义的出现,并反思了我们利用技术专长或知识解决物质世界中持续存在的问题的能力的明显局限性。最后,本文反思了电子通信媒体的历史实例,以及它如何在尼尔·波斯曼所说的“技术政治”中,在概念、文化和情感空间中密集地加速和压缩时间,以重新思考20世纪的公民主体思想。
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Explorations in Media Ecology
Explorations in Media Ecology Social Sciences-Cultural Studies
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