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Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan : text and iPhone Hipstamatic photography
- Title
- Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan : text and iPhone Hipstamatic photography / by Rita Leistner.
- Author
- Leistner, Rita, 1964-
- Publication
- Bristol, U.K. : Intellect, 2013.
- ©2013
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DS371.412 .L45 2013 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Stallabrass, Julian
- Description
- 240 pages : illustrations (colour); 23 cm
- Summary
- In 2011, Rita Leistner embedded with U.S. Marines in Afghanistan as a team member of the experimental social media initiative Basetrack. What resulted is Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan. In this insightful and provocative, playful and original merging of theory and practice, Leistner applies the pioneering Canadian media theorist's ideas on language and technology to contemporary warfare and increasingly ubiquitous smartphones. Leistner uses her iPhone Hipstamatic photographs as a portal between image and text in a series of iProbes - a portmanteau of iPhone and probe - to focus on man's artefacts and technologies. Where in her previous work Leistner has shown the human face of war, here she reveals the face of war through what McLuhan calls the extensions of man.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 232)..
- Contents
- Hipstamatic Blues by Julian Stallabrass -- The Process -- Smartphones + War in Afghanistan -- Marshall McLuhan b.1911 in Alberta, Canada -- The embed -- Semiotics -- Figure + Ground -- Reading McLuhan -- Musa Qala -- The social media -- River City -- iPhone + the Hipstamatic app -- The thingness of things -- The iProbes -- Prophylactive therapy -- The Extensions of Man -- Camera obscura -- Electric light -- Typewriter -- Telephone -- Phonograph -- Smart phone -- McLuhan + Fiore + The Printed Book -- The iProbes -- iProbe 01_The iPhone Camera + Hipstamatic app -- iProbe 02_Phone Texting -- iProbe 03_Body Armour -- iProbe 04_Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles (MRAPs) -- iProbe 05_Figure / Ground -- iProbe 06_Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) Made of Wood -- iProbe 07_Fuel Dispensers -- iProbe 08_Loudspeakers and Sermons from the Mosque -- iProbe 09_Mobile Telephony: "Can You Hear Me Now?" -- iProbe 10_The Written Word: "Proceed At Your Own Risk" -- iProbe 11_Unmanned Ariel Vehicles (UAVs) -- iProbe 12_Sandbags and HESCO Concertina Barriers -- The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:00-11:10) -- The Tetrads: Laws of Media.
- ISBN
- 9781783200306
- 1783200308
- 9781783200733 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781783200740 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- ocn867926756
- 867926756
- SCSB-14410541
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library