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SUMMARY:CIDRAL Theory Intensive on McLuhan
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DESCRIPTION:All welcome\, no booking required.\n\nCIDRAL Theory Intensive
  on McLuhan: H Marshall McLuhan: the last futurist\n\nwith Vincenzo Susc
 a (Paris Descartes Sorbonne University) and Claudia Attimonelli (Bari)\n
 \nReadings:\n\nMarshall McLuhan\, ‘Medium is the Message’ and ‘Challenge
  and Collapse: The Nemesis of Creativity’ in Understanding Media: The Ex
 tensions of Man (Cambridge\, MA: MIT Press\, 1994 [1964])\, pp. 7-21 and
  62-73\n\npdfs available here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5n8mqj4dnfrne6
 6/AAAUeKnVP_Uywt2Hd1ksuYjUa?dl=0\n\nVincenzo Susca is maître de conféren
 ces in Sociology of the Imaginary at the Paul-Valéry University of Montp
 ellier and researcher at the Centre d’étude sur l’actuel et le quotidien
  at the Paris Descartes Sorbonne University. As a McLuhan Fellow at Toro
 nto University\, together with M. Dandrieux\, he founded and directed th
 e journal “Les Cahiers Européens de l’Imaginaire” (CNRS éditions\, Paris
 ) in 2008.\nAmong his publications: Transpolitica. Nuovi rapporti di pot
 ere e di sapere (Milan 2008\, São Paulo 2012)\; Ricreazioni. Galassie de
 ll’immaginario postmoderno (Milan 2008\, Paris 2009)\; Eroi del quotidia
 no. Figure della serialità televisiva (Milan 2010)\; Gioia Tragica. Le f
 orme elementari della vita elettronica (Milan 2010\, Paris 2011\, Barcel
 ona 2012). He curated in collaboration with C. Attimonelli the art show 
 of Madame in Bergamo. He has also co-written\, together with Alain Béhar
 \, the transmedia theatrical production Angelus Novissimus (2014)\, draw
 ing inspiration from McLuhan and Benjamin among others.\n\nClaudia Attim
 onelli is a researcher in Language Theory and the Science of Signs\, she
  teaches Cinema\, Photography and Television at “Aldo Moro” University o
 f Bari and Post Journalism at the Master of Journalism in Bari. Her fiel
 ds of research are media studies\, visual culture\, urban styles and mus
 ic through the perspective of sociosemiotics and sociology of imaginery.
  She works as a curator for art galleries\, clubs and theaters where she
  coordinates projects and exhibitions\; her last curatorial poject was f
 or the art show of Madame in Bergamo\, in collaboration with V. Susca. H
 er most recent publications are: Le désavenir du temps. Le fake\, la mor
 t et autres fantòmes (2014)\; Djing\, Fandom\, Remix\, Sample\, Vjing fo
 r Treccani ICT (2012)\; To be continued. I destini del corpo nei serial 
 televisivi\, (2011)\; Underground Zone. Dandy\, punk and beautiful peopl
 e\, (2011)\; L’artista è un eroe mediale (2010)\; Techno. Ritmi afrofutu
 risti (2008) .
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LOCATION:C1.18\, Ellen Wilkinson Building\, Manchester
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