After an incredibly helpful class on rhetoric, I've tried to map out my essay topic somewhat.
McLuhan Essay keywords: Sound Art, Multi-sensory perception, Phenomenology, Global experience.
Context: My essay takes place within the context of discussions relating to a switch from a visual culture to a more immersive technological/sensual culture. A re-mapping of sensorial relationships (Marshal McLuhan, Walter Ong etc.)
Claim: Because we are entering this new techno-sensual culture we need to attend to sense experience again, and learn to describe the phenomenological process in relation to our technological encounters. As Prof. Isabelle Choinière suggested in her lecture on dance, we need to examine new technological experiences in themselves, rather than as comparisons to “the real”.
Essential Question: Through a subjective phenomenological investigation, can we come to a shared (global) perceptual experience of technology, or are these experiences essentially fragmented and dissociative?
Evidence:
-Examples: Sound art as an expression of expanding sense experience resulting from technological shift.
-Testimony: Artists motivations, audience response to sound art works.
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