Another of the five forthcoming publications from Duke University Press for which Southwest Humanities has compiled indexes, Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan, edited by Sarah Sharma and Rianka Singh, is an exciting new collection of essays, interviews, and other texts that explore the possibilities McLuhan’s work holds for feminist media studies in the twenty-first century. The authors whose interventions are collected in this volume “argue that while McLuhan’s theory provides a falsely universalizing conception of the technological as a structuring form of power, feminist critics can take it up to show how technologies alter and determine the social experience of race, gender, class, and sexuality.” Featuring texts by scholars working in media studies and artists and activists engaged with technology, Re-Understanding Media “demonstrates how power dynamics are built into technological media and how media can be harnessed for radical purposes.” Find out more information about this title (which will be published in June 2022) at the Duke University Press website.
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