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Carlos Scolari and Fernando Rapa\u27s Media Evolution: A Review
No full textA review of Carlos Scolari and Fernando Rapa\u27s Media Evolutio
Extending the Inner Touch: Intimations of Digital Secondary Literacy in McLuhan and Ong
No full textThis paper examines the psychic effects of digital environments by re-evaluating the work of Walter Ong and, especially, Marshall McLuhan in the context of Aristotelian and Thomist psychology. The paper argues that, due to the high-definition logical stress of computer technologies, the digital environment obsolesces the psychic attitudes implicated in what McLuhan described as the electronic retrieval of “acoustic space.” In contrast to, what Walter Ong termed, the “secondary orality” of radio and television, I argue that digital technology constitutes an environment of “secondary literacy,” a term that Ong introduced in his later years but did not develop. In order to understand the new sensory and psychological ratios constituted by digital environments, I examine McLuhan’s interpretation of the “primary literacy” of the medieval scribal environment as grounded in the doctrine of the common sense or “sensus communis.” Through evaluating Aristotle’s and Aquinas’ association of the common sense with tactility, I argue that the “secondary literacy” of the digital environment extends the medieval sense of “inner tactility”—or the manner in which experience is generated based on the interface between sensory perception and intellectual judgment. Finally, by arguing that the digital environment simulates a multiplicity of “lifeworlds” or “object-environments” based on ratios of “inner tactility,” I examine some fundamental ways in which the hermeneutic methods of Ong and McLuhan presage the phenomenology of secondary literacy
Nethnography: An ecological approach to digital interactions
No full textThis paper explores the possibilities and limitations of nethnography, an ethnographic approach applied to the study of online interactions, particularly social media. In this paper, a brief history of Ethnography, including its relation to anthropological theories and its key methodological assumptions is addressed. Departing from a media ecological assumption, considering digital environments as social settings, some strategies related to a naturalistic perspective for data analysis are examined. In addition, the most frequent methodologies applied to the Internet treat logfiles as the only or main source of data and its consequences are analyzed. 
An Introduction to Marshall Soules’ Two Contributions: “Play Attention” and “McLuhan and Carpenter: Tricksters at the Margins, A Postscript to Play Attention”
No full textAn Introduction to Marshall Soules’ Two Contribution
A Review of McLuhan in Reverse by Robert K. Logan
No full textMcLuhan in Reverse
by Robert K. Logan
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The State of Exhaustion in the Work of Daniele Ciprì and Franco Maresco: An Exploration via the World, Bodies, and Gesture
No full textThis essay explores the television and cinematographic work of Sicilian filmmakers Daniele Ciprì and Franco Maresco from a posthumanist perspective with a view to examine the state of exhaustion as the main common denominator within the settings, bodies and gestures of their films. As Rosi Braidotti points out, the state of exhaustion becomes a generative precondition to learn to think differently, and to put an affirmative ethics into practice (Braidotti, Posthuman Knowledge 18–19). Reviewing the work of the two Palermitani in a posthumanist key allows us to examine their cynical and dejected world from a new, positive and edifying perspective. Segments of Daniele Ciprì and Franco Maresco’s television program Cinico TV (1989–96) will be analysed, as well as their film Lo zio di Brooklyn (The Uncle from Brooklyn; 1995). My aim is to vindicate the work of two radical but still little-known filmmakers, who are essential to understanding the power of film and television in combating the homogeneity and aesthetic and narrative indoctrination of the media
Clara Stella. Lodovico Domenichi e le “Rime diverse d’alcune nobilissime et virtuosissime donne” (1559)
No full textTrouver la juste mesure : comment (et pourquoi !) les bibliothèques universitaires peuvent soutenir l\u27enseignement des métiers
No full textAlthough a current trend in education emphasizes the importance of developing job-ready graduates in skilled trades, in librarian circles there has been little attention paid to our role in this movement. This article explores perspectives from two trades librarians on this gap in the context of postsecondary institutes. We find that while many academic libraries and librarians may be under-prepared to support many of their campus’s trades programs, there are opportunities for librarians to come together in support of one another. Remarking on our experiences, we share reflections from others in the community and discuss what needs to be done to meet a growing need for student support.Bien qu\u27une tendance actuelle en éducation souligne l\u27importance de former des diplômé.e.s prêt.e.s à l\u27emploi dans les métiers spécialisés, dans les cercles bibliothécaires, peu d\u27attention a été accordée à notre rôle dans ce mouvement. Cet article explore les perspectives de deux bibliothécaires des métiers sur cette lacune dans le contexte des instituts postsecondaires. Nous constatons que même si de nombreuses bibliothèques universitaires et bibliothécaires sont peut-être sous-préparés à soutenir bon nombre des programmes de métiers de leur campus, il existe des possibilités pour les bibliothécaires de se réunir pour se soutenir mutuellement. En faisant part de nos expériences, nous partageons les réflexions d\u27autres membres de la communauté et discutons de ce qui doit être fait pour répondre à un besoin croissant de soutien aux étudiant.e.s
Aristotle’s Theology: The Primary Texts Translated with Introduction and Notes par C. D. C. Reeve
No full textHow to cite: Segev, M. rev. Aristotle’s Theology: The Primary Texts Translated with Introduction and Notes by C. D. C. Reeve. Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science (2024) 5: rev02 1–6. https://doi.org/10.33137/aestimatio.v5.45500Comment citer : Segev, M. rev. Aristotle’s Theology: The Primary Texts Translated with Introduction and Notes par C. D. C. Reeve. Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science (2024) 5: rev02 1–6. https://doi.org/10.33137/aestimatio.v5.4550
Mot des éditeurs
No full textForeword
Volume 4 of the new series of Aestimatio is now complete. Though the move to a print-when-ready model of publication took longer than we anticipated, we are finding that it works well for us and will, we trust, benefit our readers and authors also.
As we close this volume and start work on the next, we find it a good time to reiterate the journal’s aim and to clarify some of the ways in which we want to pursue it going forward. When we established Aestimatio (new series), we stated our focus as the history of science from antiquity to the early modern period. We still recognize that the appropriate geo-cultural scope of science in the Old World before the modern era encompasses cultures in Eurasia and Africa.
This chronological and geo-cultural scope allows Aestimatio to publish research situated in sources from Arabic, Byzantine, Syriac, and Slavic cultures. We are pleased that scholars in the sciences of these languages and cultures see a home for their work in our journal. As an example, volume 4 includes the publication of Florentina Badalanova Geller’s “Galen’s Nachlass in Slavonic Intellectual Landscapes: Knowledge Transmission in the Byzantine” [https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/aestimatio/article/view/44904] and volume 5 will include a focus section entitled “Diagrams in Medieval Europe: Magic, Science and Ritual” edited by Sophie Page and Richard Kieckhefer.
We continue to promote work that seeks to place science in its Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, and Latin cultural contexts, but want now to encourage submissions of research on the Syriac, Aramaic, Byzantine, and Old Church Slavonic as well as Arabic materials that all contribute to our knowledge of the sciences in late antique and medieval contexts.
In pursuit of this goal, Chessie and I have invited and are delighted to welcome Anne-Laurence Caudano (University of Winnipeg) to our editorial staff. Anne-Laurence is a highly esteemed medievalist with a special interest in the history of Byzantine science. With her expertise and input, the journal stays true to its original and continuing commitment to the study of the sciences in the ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds and their later legacy in Byzantium, Western and Eastern Europe.
Alan C. Bowen and Francesca [email protected]@gmail.com
How to cite: Bowen, A. C. and F. Rochberg, “From the Editors”. Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History 0f Science (2024) 5: vii–viiiAvant propos
Le volume 4 de la nouvelle série d’Aestimatio est désormais complet. Bien que la transition vers un modèle de publication en continu ait pris plus de temps que prévu, nous constatons que ce système fonctionne bien pour nous et, nous l’espérons, profitera également à nos lecteurs et à nos auteurs.
Alors que nous clôturons ce volume et commençons à travailler sur le suivant, il nous semble opportun de réaffirmer l’objectif de la revue et de clarifier certains aspects de notre démarche pour l’avenir. Lors de la création d’Aestimatio (nouvelle série), nous avions précisé que notre champ d’études portait sur l’histoire des sciences depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’à la période moderne. Nous reconnaissons toujours que l’étendue géoculturelle de la science dans l’Ancien Monde avant l’époque moderne englobe les cultures d’Eurasie et d’Afrique.
Cette étendue chronologique et géoculturelle permet à Aestimatio de publier des travaux fondés sur des sources arabes, byzantines, syriaques et slaves. Nous sommes heureux que des chercheurs spécialisés dans les sciences de ces langues et cultures considèrent notre revue comme un lieu pertinent pour la diffusion de leurs travaux. À titre d’exemple, le volume 4 comprend la publication de l’article de Florentina Badalanova Geller, «Galen’s Nachlass in Slavonic Intellectual Landscapes: Knowledge Transmission in the Byzantine» [https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/aestimatio/article/view/44904], tandis que le volume 5 proposera une contribution intitulée «Diagrams in Medieval Europe: Magic, Science and Ritual», par Sophie Page et Richard Kieckhefer.
Nous continuons de promouvoir des travaux qui s’attachent à replacer la science dans ses contextes culturels babylonien, égyptien, grec et latin, mais nous souhaitons désormais encourager la soumission de travaux portant sur les sources syriaques, araméennes et byzantines, de même que celles en vieux slave et les matériaux arabes qui contribuent à enrichir notre connaissance des sciences dans le contexte de l’Antiquité tardive et du Moyen Âge.
Dans cette optique, Chessie et moi avons le plaisir d’accueillir Anne-Laurence Caudano (Université de Winnipeg) au sein de notre équipe éditoriale. Anne-Laurence est une médiéviste hautement estimée, spécialiste de l’histoire des sciences byzantines. Grâce à son expertise et à sa participation, la revue reste fidèle à son engagement initial et continu pour l’étude des sciences dans le monde antique du Proche-Orient et de la Méditerranée, ainsi qu’à leur héritage dans la Byzance médiévale et dans l’Europe occidentale et orientale.
Comment citer: Bowen, A. C. and F. Rochberg, “Mot de éditeurs”. Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History 0f Science (2024) 5: ix–