Microphysics of Hardware or the Gigantism of the Infinitesimally Small

Dimitris Ginosatis (1) , Dionyssis Kavvathas (2) , Anastazia Golemi (2)

1 ASFA - Athens School of Fine Arts
2 Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences

English version of a lecture (5.000 words) delivered in Greek at the Marshall McLuhan & Walter J. Ong International Centenary Symposium (The New Sensorium - Embodied Perception, Extensions of Humanity & Digital Communication), held in Athens, Greece (20-21 April, 2012). The symposium was organized by the Department of Communication, Media & Culture of the Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences and its postgraduate programme in Cultural Management, in association with the Coach House Institute and its McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology at the Faculty of Information (University of Toronto). For further information, see here: http://entopia.org/newsensorium/

Mots clés: Martin Heidegger; Marshall McLuhan; Friedrich Kittler; Harold Innis; media theory; communication; Aristotle; miniaturization; technology; technical media

Domaines: Philosophie; Ordinateur et société [cs.CY]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Dimitris Ginosatis, Dionyssis Kavvathas, Anastazia Golemi. Microphysics of Hardware or the Gigantism of the Infinitesimally Small. Marshall McLuhan and Walter J. Ong International Centenary Symposium (The New Sensorium - Embodied Perception, Extensions of Humanity & Digital Communication), Apr 2012, Athens, Greece. ⟨hal-01234444v3⟩