Week 3
Exploring the Tool Box: An Experiential Introduction
Our Relationship to Tools, Media and Things
The philosopher and media theorist Marshall McLuhan is often credited with the idea that "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." Keeping this idea in mind watch, read and collaboratively annotate:1. Marshall McLuhan, "The Message is the Medium," in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964). Hypothes.is link.
2. Wilson Miner, "When we build," Build, Anaheim, California, 2011. https://vimeo.com/34017777.
3. Jane Bennet, “Preface and Chapter 1,” in Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010). Hypothes.is link.
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