By Tom Wolfe, Herbert Marshall Mcluhan, Stephanie Mcluhan, David Staines
Unbuttoned McLuhan! An intimate exploration of Marshall McLuhan's rules in his personal words
In the final 20 years of his lifestyles, Marshall McLuhan released -- usually in collaboration with others -- a chain of books that verified his attractiveness because the pre-eminent seer of the trendy age. It used to be McLuhan who made the excellence among "hot" and "cool" media. It used to be he who saw that "the medium is the message" and who tossed off dozens of alternative both memorable words from "the international village" and "pattern recognition" to "feedback" and "iconic" imagery.
McLuhan used to be way over a pithy-phrase maker, even if. He foresaw -- at a time while the private computing device was once a teckie myth -- that the area will be introduced jointly by means of the web. He foresaw the adjustments that might be wrought by way of electronic expertise. He understood, ahead of any of his contemporaries, the implications of the revolution that tv and the pc have been bringing approximately. in lots of methods, we're nonetheless catching as much as him.
In knowing Me, Stephanie McLuhan and David Staines have introduced jointly eighteen formerly unpublished lectures and interviews by means of or concerning Marshall McLuhan. they've got in universal the informality and accessibility of the spoken note. In each case, the textual content is the transcript taken down from the movie, audio, or video tape of the particular encounters -- this isn't what McLuhan wrote yet what he stated. the result's a revelation: the seer who frequently is considered aloof and vague is proven to be humorous, spontaneous, and simply understood.
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Giddens, 1979: 59-65; 1997a: 67-77). Die Deutungshoheit über soziale Strukturen nehmen gemeinhin die Vertreter des Funktionalismus und Strukturalismus für sich in Anspruch. Giddens kritisiert deren Ansätze jedoch als objektivistisch, da sie – wenn man diese Ideen konsequent zu Ende denke – Menschen ihre Handlungs- und Bewusstseinsfähigkeit absprechen (vgl. Giddens, 1982). Aus diesem Grund hat Giddens eine sozialtheoretische Neufassung sozialer Strukturen vorgelegt. Das entscheidene Moment seiner Argumenation ist, dass er Struktur nicht als Gegen-, sondern als Komplementärbegriff zum Handeln konzeptualisiert: Struktur ist zugleich Ergebnis und Medium des Handelns, also etwas, das Handeln sowohl begrenzt als auch ermöglicht.
Wiederholte, aufeinander bezogene Verantwortungszuschreibungen bilden soziale Verantwortungssysteme (beispielsweise den CSR-Diskurs oder den Global Compact). Miteinander verschränkte Verantwortungssysteme gewährleisten eine „Verklammerung“ von Zuschreibungen über weite raumzeitliche Distanzen; ein Vorgang der von Giddens Systemintegration genannt wird. Vor diesem Hintergrund lässt sich nachvollziehen, was Giddens mit Strukturierung meint: „Struktur wird immer nur wirksam in den konkreten Vollzügen der handlungspraktischen Strukturierung sozialer Systeme, weshalb ich meinen Ansatz ,Theorie der Strukturierung‘ genannt habe“ (Giddens, 1988: 290).
Giddens kritisiert deren Ansätze jedoch als objektivistisch, da sie – wenn man diese Ideen konsequent zu Ende denke – Menschen ihre Handlungs- und Bewusstseinsfähigkeit absprechen (vgl. Giddens, 1982). Aus diesem Grund hat Giddens eine sozialtheoretische Neufassung sozialer Strukturen vorgelegt. Das entscheidene Moment seiner Argumenation ist, dass er Struktur nicht als Gegen-, sondern als Komplementärbegriff zum Handeln konzeptualisiert: Struktur ist zugleich Ergebnis und Medium des Handelns, also etwas, das Handeln sowohl begrenzt als auch ermöglicht.
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