I’m heading back to the library again, it seems, this coming Monday night (Halloween for the less geeky segment), in order to attend this talk entitled From cosmic city to global village : McLuhan, media and the metropolis, a part of the “Living the Global City” series in preparation for the World Urban Forum in Vancouver next June. It’s happening Monday, October 31st, 7:30pm, Vancouver Public Library (Central): Alice Mackay Room. The blurb from the Georgia Straight:
Richard Cavell is Professor of English and Director of the International Canadian Studies Centre at UBC. His current research interests are in theories of spatial production as they apply broadly within cultural studies. With the phrase “the global village,” Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan set in motion a debate about the role of the local within an increasingly globalized world of networks and interfaces. Cavell will speak on McLuhan’s notion of bio-technological embodiment as it envisioned the globe itself as human prosthesis wired together by electronic media.
I’m always up for a little more McLuhan, and with the project I’m working on right now for class on public washrooms, I’m starting to get more interested in sustainability and the intricacies of the urban experience.
Many of the others sound interesting as well. Alas, I’m starting to draw some limits on myself on what kinds of mindboggling things I can give time to, since other obligations are starting to nip at my heels.
