RT Article
T1 Whitehead and Media Ecology: Toward a Communicative Cosmos
JF Process studies
VO 48
IS 2
SP 239
OP 253
A1 Segall, Matthew T.
LA English
PB University of Illinois Press
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1687954127
AB This article brings media ecology into conversation with Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy of organism in an effort to lure the former beyond its normally anthropocentric orientation. The article is divided into two parts. Part 1 spells out the way Whitehead's approach can aid media ecology in developing a less anthropocentric theory of communication. Part 2 engages more specifically with Mark B. N. Hansen's Feed-Forward: On the Future of Twenty-First- Century Media. Hansen's work is an example of the exciting new directions opened up for media theory by Whitehead's panexperientialist ontology, but I argue that Hansen's attempt to "invert" Whitehead's theory of perception is based on a terminological confusion.
K1 Ecology
K1 Mass Media
K1 Media Studies
K1 Universe
K1 Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947
DO 10.5406/processstudies.48.2.0239