Foreword
Eric McLuhan
A Trialogic Introduction
Robert K. Logan, Corey Anton, and Lance Strate
Chapter One: The Form of Things to Come: A Review of Media and
Formal Cause
Corey Anton
Chapter Two: McLuhan, Formal Cause and the Future of
Technological Mediation & Postscript
Corey Anton
Chapter Three: Medium as ‘Metaform’: An Inquiry into the Life of
Forms
Paolo Granata
Chapter Four: From Aristotle via Aquinas: Understanding Formal
Cause in Marshall McLuhan’s Philosophy
Laura Trujillo Liñán
Chapter Five: The Effects That Give Cause, and the Pattern That
Directs
Lance Strate
Chapter Six: McLuhan and Causality: Technological Determinism,
Formal Cause and Emergence
Robert K. Logan
Chapter Seven: Formal Cause: McLuhan’s ‘Objective
Turn’?
Yoni Van Den Eede
Chapter Eight: Forms of Causality
Chad Hansen
Chapter Nine: Anti-Environmental Art and Its Role in Making
Formal Cause Visible
Steve Reagles
Chapter Ten: Of Memes, Modes, Minor Audiences and Formal
Cause
Eric S. Jenkins
Chapter Eleven: After Effects, Before Causes: Technique,
Artistic Intent and Formal Causality
Kirk Zamieroski
Chapter Twelve: Re-Cognizing Formal Cause
Peter Zhang
Chapter Thirteen: Disrobing the Probe, Unpacking the Sprachage:
Formal Cause or the Cause of Form Reframing McLuhan and the
Kabbalah
Adeena Karasick
Robert K. Logan is Professor Emeritus of physics and in School of
the Environment, University of Toronto. He is a fellow of St.
Michael’s College, University of Toronto. He is also the chief
scientist at the Strategic Innovation Lab, Ontario College of Art
and Design (OCAD).
Corey Anton is professor of communication studies at Grand Valley
State University and a fellow of the International Communicology
Institute. He is author of Selfhood and Authenticity (SUNY Press,
2001), Sources of Significance: Worldly Rejuvenation and Neo-Stoic
Heroism (Purdue University Press, 2010), Communication Uncovered:
General Semantics and Media Ecology (IGS Press, 2010) and, most
recently, How Non-Being Haunts Being: Possibilities, Morality and
Death Acceptance (Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 2020). Past
editor of the journal Explorations in Media Ecology, past president
of the Media Ecology Association, Anton currently serves as
vice-president of the Institute of General Semantics.
Contact: Grand Valley State University, 210 LSH, 1 Campus Drive,
School of Communications, Allendale, MI 49401-9403, USA.
Lance Strate is professor of communication and media studies, and a
past president of the Media Ecology Association. He is the author
of seven books, including Amazing Ourselves to Death: Neil
Postman’s Brave New World Revisited (Peter Lang, 2014), Media
Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition (Peter
Lang, 2017) and the poetry collection, Thunder at Darwin Station
(NeoPoiesis, 2014).
'Very good essays on a crucial intellectual topic. I’m hopeful that
this anthology will help kick off another McLuhan movement rooted
in McLuhan’s place in the great tradition of philosophies of
causation. '
*Graham Harman, American University in Cairo*
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