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What skills do we need to negotiate the changing technological circumstances of our lives? How should we respond to the changing space of the visual, the technological? We are bombarded with answers to these questions: by media, by government, and by education. For the most part we are told that what we need to do is utilize the latest technologies and develop the newest skills (computer literacy prominent among them). Here, with keen interdisciplinary insight, historical sensitivity, and corporate design experience, John T. Waisanen offers a different kind of argument. He looks to particular skills we might be losing (and might have for some time been losing): drawing in particular; and to the «art» of integrating complex vision, thought and practice, what he calls design - or geometrical thinking. This points to the importance of the arts as a physical practice and to the cultivation of complex vision and thought gained in and through an education where geometry and literature are equally important, where physical intelligence (not just dexterity) and philosophical intelligence are equally important.
About the Author: The Author: John T. Waisanen obtained his B.A. in communication from Michigan State University, his M.A. in industrial design from Wayne State University, and his Ph.D. in rhetoric and technical communication from Michigan Technological University. In addition, he studied architecture and worked as a consultant, designer, and trainer in the automotive industry. A banjo player and instrument maker, he loved to restore old instruments and furniture. He died in 1998 of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, leaving behind this work, completed shortly before his death.
The Editor: Jennifer Daryl Slack is Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies in the Department of Humanities at Michigan Technological University. Her previous books include Communication Technologies and Society and The Ideology of the Information Age, co-edited with Fred Fejes. Her forthcoming books include the edited Animations (of Deleuze and Guattari) (Peter Lang) and Culture and Technology, co-authored with J. Macgregor Wise.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780820451848
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 368 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0820451843
  • Publisher Date: 07 Oct 2002
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 198
  • Series Title: Digital Formations
  • Sub Title: Re-Visioning Space for a Multimodal World
  • Width: 160 mm


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