Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 18:46:50 +0100
From: "steve.devos-AT-krokodile.com" <steve.devos-AT-krokodile.com>
Subject: Re: McLuhans angel


Kurt

The Serres text is published by flammarion in paris-NY - but I bought it
through amazon.com isdn number 2-08013-571-6

"here is the world in which we live, as i see it: the space-time of
communication, the metaphysics of the service industries... the all embracing
environment in which we exist - the intercommunication of message-bearing
systems." M Serres.

steve.devos

kurt vanhoutte wrote:

> 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
> ----------
> > 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 ----
> >
> >
> >steve.devos
> >
> >kurt vanhoutte wrote:
> >
> >> 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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