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The first of four books in a groundbreaking new series, The Human Equation Toolkit.
“We are very lucky indeed that Eric McLuhan and Wayne Constantineau are carrying on the McLuhan tradition of fearless investigation into territories that yield extraordinary insight. Strange and fascinating works.” —Douglas Coupland
Mime Wayne Constantineau and scholar Eric McLuhan explore the four possible positions of humans-standing, lying down, sitting, and kneeling-as the basis of all developments in culture, science, activity, and media. As McLuhan writes, “Man is the microcosm of the universe. Media are the extensions of man. The Human Equation is the doorway into all three ... The Human Equation deals with the relation between humans and our media, technologies, languages, theories, and ideas.”
The late Wayne Constantineau was a mime and scholar who left behind him, at his death in 2006, his studies on mime and the insights of Marshall McLuhan. Eric McLuhan, who is bringing these studies to fruition in The Human Equation Toolkit, is also the author of Laws of Media (written with Marshall McLuhan), Electric Language, and The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake. He is also the editor of several collections of his father's work.
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the bodily roots of metaphor and culture
11 Jan 2011
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'The Human Equation' is an important book, both serious and ironic. Seriously, this little book lays the groundwork for perceptual and cultural changes in the experience of the body, in living in an incarnate form. Begun by a mime, Wayne Constantineau, and finished by Marshall McLuhan's son Eric, the book describes the body's role in perception and understanding in a visceral, non-academic manner. Ironically, not only because it is a book, but because as McLuhan pointed out more than thirty years ago, the electric age is in effect discarnate, essentially without bodies. He meant the analogy satirically. Now we retrieve our bodies as shocking art to make ourselves and others aware with piercings and tattoos. This book may provide an important method for restoring balance for those who might like to 'reincarnate' themselves into bodily awareness and its many metaphors. Get out of the electric ether and take your mind for a walk on the mime side.
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