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020			_a9780195079104
040			_aMIUC _beng _cMIUC
082	0		_a302.23
100	1		_9164 _aMcLuhan, Marshall, _d1911-1980
245	1	4	_aThe global village : _btransformations in world life and media in the 21st century / _cMarshall McLuhan and Bruce R. Powers.
260			_aNew York ; _aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _cc1989.
300			_a220 p. : _bill. b&w ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPt. 1. Explorations in visual and acoustic space. Ch. 1. The resonating interval. Ch. 2. The wheel and the axle. Ch. 3. Visual and acoustic space. Ch. 4. East meets west in the hemispheres. Ch. 5. Plato and angelism. Ch. 6. Hidden effects -- Pt. 2. The global effects of video-related technologies. Ch. 7. Global robotism: the satisfactions. Ch. 8. Global robotism: the dissatisfactions. Ch. 9. Angels to robots: from Euclidean space to Einsteinian space -- Pt. 3. The United States and Canada: The Border as a Resonating Interval. Ch. 10. Epilogue: Canada as counter-environment -- Pt. 4. A glossary of tetrads. Tetradic glossary.
520			_aExplores the new "laws" of media, "laws" fostering a dramatic collision of viewpoints. The first based on Visual Space - the linear, quantitative mode of perception characteristic of the Western world is preserved by the medium of print. While the second, based on Acoustic Space - the holistic, qualitative reasoning of the East - is being fostered by television, the technologies of the data base, communication satallites, and the globalmedia network.
650		0	_9165 _aMass media _xSocial aspects
650		0	_9166 _aMass media _xTechnological innovations
650		0	_9167 _aTechnology _xSocial aspects
700	1		_9168 _aPowers, Bruce R.
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