MEA2017

Technological Enchantments:

The Role of Magic in Contemporary Human Ecology

Return to magic

“All technology has the Midas touch”

- Marshall McLuhan

“We stand once more in the magical acoustical sphere of pre-literate man [...], in the magical world of the ear”

- Marshall McLuhan

selfness

presenceness

spiritual energy

nowness

presence of words

civilized substitute for magic

mass-man

social man

mass recording devices

"New society will be one mythic integration, a resonating world akin to the old tribal echo chamber where magic will live again"

-Marshall McLuhan

performances of presence

the age of recording

mass recording devices

living the present

nowness

I perform, therefore I am

Paolo GRANATA

University of Toronto