The contributors to Re-Understanding Media advance a feminist
version of Marshall McLuhan's key text, Understanding Media: The
Extensions of Man, repurposing his insight that "the medium is the
message" for feminist ends. They 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 experiences of
race, gender, class, and sexuality. This volume showcases essays,
experimental writings, and interviews from media studies scholars,
artists, activists, and those who work with and create technology.
Among other topics, the contributors extend McLuhan's discussion of
transportation technology to the attics and cargo boxes that moved
Black women through the Underground Railroad, apply McLuhan's
concept of media as extensions of humans to analyze Tupperware as
media of containment, and take up 3D printing as a feminist and
decolonial practice. The volume demonstrates how power dynamics are
built into technological media and how media can be harnessed for
radical purposes. Contributors. Nasma Ahmed, Morehshin Allahyari,
Sarah Banet-Weiser, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brooke Erin Duffy,
Ganaele Langlois, Sara Martel, Shannon Mattern, Cait McKinney,
Jeremy Packer, Craig Robertson, Sarah Sharma, Ladan Siad, Rianka
Singh, Nicholas Taylor, Armond R. Towns, and Jennifer Wemigwans
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