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Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan
iProbes and iPhone Photographs
Table of Contents
Foreword
Hipstamatic Blues by Julian Stallabrass
The Process
Smartphones + War in Afghanistan
Marshall McLuhan b. 1911 in Alberta Canada
The embed
Semiotics
Figure + Ground
Reading McLuhan
Musa Qala
The social media
River City
iPhone + the Hipstamatic app
The thingness of things
The iProbes
Prophylactive therapy
The Extensions of Man
Camera obscura
Electric light
Typewriter
Telephone
Phonograph
Smartphone
McLuhan + Fiore + The Printed Book
The iProbes
iProbe 01_The iphone Camera + the Hipstamatic app
iProbe 02_Phone Texting
iProbe 03_Body Armour
iProbe 04_Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles (MRAPs)
iProbe 05_Figure / Ground
iProbe 06_Improved Explosive Devices (IEDs) Made of Wood
iProbe 07_Fuel Dispensers
iProbe 08_Loudspeakers and Sermons from the Mosque
iProbe 09_Mobile Telephony: “Can You Hear Me Now?”
iProbe 10_The Written Word: “Proceed At Your Own Risk”
iProbe 11_Unmaned Ariel Vehicles (UAVs)
iProbe 12_Sandbags and HESCO Concertina Barriers
The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:00–11:10)
The Tetrads: Laws of Media
Notes
Bibliography
Colophon
Acknowledgements
About the author