Confronting Technopoly

Phil Rose is the author of Roger Waters and Pink Floyd: The Concept Albums and Radiohead and the Global Movement for Change: 'Pragmatism Not Idealism'.

• Foreword Eric McLuhanA Trialogic Introduction Robert K. Logan, Corey Anton, and Lance StrateChapter One: The Form of Things to Come: A Review of Media and Formal CauseCorey AntonChapter Two: McLuhan, Formal Cause and the Future of Technological Mediation & PostscriptCorey AntonChapter Three: Medium as ‘Metaform’: An Inquiry into the Life of Forms Paolo GranataChapter Four: From Aristotle via Aquinas: Understanding Formal Cause in Marshall McLuhan’s PhilosophyLaura Trujillo LiñánChapter Five: The Effects That Give Cause, and the Pattern That Directs Lance StrateChapter Six: McLuhan and Causality: Technological Determinism, Formal Cause and EmergenceRobert K. LoganChapter Seven: Formal Cause: McLuhan’s ‘Objective Turn’? Yoni Van Den EedeChapter Eight: Forms of Causality Chad HansenChapter Nine: Anti-Environmental Art and Its Role in Making Formal Cause VisibleSteve ReaglesChapter Ten: Of Memes, Modes, Minor Audiences and Formal Cause Eric S. JenkinsChapter Eleven: After Effects, Before Causes: Technique, Artistic Intent and Formal CausalityKirk ZamieroskiChapter Twelve: Re-Cognizing Formal Cause Peter ZhangChapter Thirteen: Disrobing the Probe, Unpacking the Sprachage: Formal Cause or the Cause of Form Reframing McLuhan and the KabbalahAdeena Karasick