Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 18:04:11 +0100
Subject: Re: McLuhans angel
From: kurt vanhoutte <kurt.vanhoutte2-AT-planetinternet.be>


Thanks Steve; do you happen to know where this text is published? I can't
remember (or find) a book by that name written by Serres, so I suppose it
must be an article published somewhere?

Kurt Vanhoutte 
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> From: "steve.devos" <steve.devos-AT-krokodile.com>
> To: technology-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu 
> Subject: Re: McLuhans angel 
> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 23:02:27 +0100 
> 
>Kurt
>
>Have a look at M Serres book "Angels a modern myth "  great text ----
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>
>steve.devos
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>kurt vanhoutte wrote:
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>> It's as if angels with blank voices inhabit this room...
>> Anyway, I am preparing a text on the technological condition of the
>> representation of the body in theatre. Main focus is the theoretical
concept
>> of allegory developed by Walter Benjamin and his relating idea about
angels.
>> As a starter I would like to contrast Benjamins angel with something Mc
>> Luhan once wrote on this theme (he compared man and his technological
>> extensions to the embodied existence of angels, if I'm not mistaking).
>> Problem is: I forgot exactly where Mc Luhan used this angel-metaphor to
>> describe man in the technological era. If anybody could help me out on
this,
>> I would be very grateful.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Kurt Vanhoutte
>>
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