Derrick de Kerckhove is the author of The Skin of Culture and Connected Intelligence. He is Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto, Canada. He was the Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology from 1983 until 2008.
De Kerckhove received his Ph.D in French Language and Literature from the University of Toronto in 1975 and a Doctorat du 3e cycle in Sociology of Art from the University of Tours (France) in 1979.
He was an associate of the Centre for Culture and Technology from 1972 to 1980, and worked with Marshall McLuhan for over ten years as translator, assistant and co-author.
Bunz's text will focus on the different ways in which the word 'and' formats the relation between reality - which means us, the humans - and the computer. Her ambition is to demonstrate that the 'and'...
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