Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Re-Understanding Media by Sarah Sharma, Rianka Singh The contributors to Re-Understanding Media advance a feminist version of Marshall McLuhans key text, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, repurposing his insight that "the medium is the message" for feminist ends. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The contributors to Re-Understanding Media advance a feminist version of Marshall McLuhans key text, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, repurposing his insight that "the medium is the message" for feminist ends. They argue that while McLuhans theory provides a falsely universalizing conception of the technological as a structuring form of power, feminist critics can take it up to show how technologies alter and determine the social experiences of race, gender, class, and sexuality. This volume showcases essays, experimental writings, and interviews from media studies scholars, artists, activists, and those who work with and create technology. Among other topics, the contributors extend McLuhans discussion of transportation technology to the attics and cargo boxes that moved Black women through the Underground Railroad, apply McLuhans concept of media as extensions of humans to analyze Tupperware as media of containment, and take up 3D printing as a feminist and decolonial practice. The volume demonstrates how power dynamics are built into technological media and how media can be harnessed for radical purposes. Contributors. Nasma Ahmed, Morehshin Allahyari, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brooke Erin Duffy, Ganaele Langlois, Sara Martel, Shannon Mattern, Cait McKinney, Jeremy Packer, Craig Robertson, Sarah Sharma, Ladan Siad, Rianka Singh, Nicholas Taylor, Armond R. Towns, and Jennifer Wemigwans Author Biography Sarah Sharma is Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. She was the director of the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology from 2017 to 2022. Sharma is author of In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics, also published by Duke University Press. Rianka Singh is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University, Toronto. Table of Contents Preface: The Centre on the Margins / Sarah Sharma vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: A Feminist Medium Is the Message / Sarah Sharma 1 Part I. Retrieving McLuhans Media 1. Transporting Blackness: Black Materialist Media Theory / Armond R. Towns 23 2. Sidewalks of Concrete and Code / Shannon Mattern 36 3. Hardwired / Nicholas Taylor 51 4. Textile, the Uneasy Medium / Ganaele Langlois 68 Part II. Thinking with McLuhan: An Invitation 5. Dear Incubator / Sara Martel 87 6. Wifesaver: Tupperware and the Unfortunate Spoils of Containment / Brooke Erin Duffy and Jeremy Packer 98 7. "Will Miss File Misfile?" The Filing Cabinet, Automatic Memory, and Gender / Craig Robertson 119 8. Computers Made of Paper, Genders Made of Cards / Cait McKinney 142 9. Sky High: Platforms and the Feminist Politics of Visibility / Rianka Singh and Sarah Banet-Weiser 163 Part III. Media after McLuhan 10. Scanning for Black Data: A Conversation with Nasma Ahmed and Ladan Siad / Sarah Sharma and Rianka Singh 179 11. 3D Printing and Digital Colonialism: A Conversation with Morehshin Allahyari / Sarah Sharma and Rianka Singh 192 12. Toward a Media Theory of the Digital Bundle: A Conversation with Jennifer Wemigwans / Sarah Sharma 208 Afterword: After McLuhan / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun 225 Bibliography 233 Contributors 255 Index 259 Review "This brilliant collection thrillingly updates and interrogates Marshall McLuhans work, with abundant insights from feminist and critical race studies. Starting from the insight that the medium is the message, Re-Understanding Media refuses the idea of technology as a mere tool, instead showing how it is a structuring form of power—from incubators to platform heels to facial recognition scanners. A challenging and important book." -- Rosalind Gill, City, University of London"Correcting the lack of feminist and critical race considerations in the body of work of media ecologist Marshall McLuhan, [Re-Understanding Media] explores the gender and racial power dynamics inherent in media technology. . . . The various modes of analyses presented—such as semiotic analysis, autoethnography, and interviews—also demonstrate the breadth of methodologies used in feminist and critical race media studies. Highly recommended." -- K. Gentles-Peart * Choice *"Re-Understanding Medias rich provocations to the field and its foundations make it a work of clear and compelling interest for media theorists and feminist scholars, artists, and activists in and outside the academy—if not, perhaps, a heartening read for devoted disciples of McLuhan." -- Eden Rea-Hedrick * The Communication Review * Review Quote "This brilliant collection thrillingly updates and interrogates Marshall McLuhans work, with abundant insights from feminist and critical race studies. Starting from the insight that the medium is the message, Re-Understanding Media refuses the idea of technology as a mere tool, instead showing how it is a structuring form of power--from the spinning wheel to platform heels to facial recognition scanners. A challenging and important book." Details ISBN147801525X Short Title Re-Understanding Media Pages 280 Publisher Duke University Press Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 147801525X ISBN-13 9781478015253 Format Hardcover Imprint Duke University Press Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2022-05-20 AU Release Date 2022-05-20 NZ Release Date 2022-05-20 US Release Date 2022-05-20 UK Release Date 2022-05-20 Author Rianka Singh Subtitle Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan Illustrations 39 illustrations Edited by Rianka Singh Alternative 9781478017875 DEWEY 302.23082 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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