Aristotle and McLuhan (ii)
January 8th, 2009 ontoligentIf electric media creates experiential drama for McLuhan, does Aristotle’s theory of tragedy — peripeteia, etc. — help us understand that drama? (Does it matter that I arrived at this idea in the form of an Aristotelian syllogism?) Can education be understood as a dramatic, or ritual, process? If so, Victor Turner’s theory of ritual process may be helpful — he discribes the liminality that McLuhan values, but he does so in Aristotelian terms.
