
August 8, 2018
16:00-18:00
16:00-18:00
The Israel Smart Cities Institute is honored to host
Prof. Robert K. Logan
in a Seminar facilitated by Dr. Edna Pasher
*Location: Rofe Hamahtarot 35, Tel Aviv*
The seminar will touch on a number of topics including the alphabet effect, the co-emergence of mathematical thinking and verbal language, the evolution of language from speech to digital media, complexity theory and the propagation of organization, the future of the city and the library.
Please register in advance – info@pasher.co.il
Bob Logan – Short Bio
Professor Emeritus Physics, Fellow of St. Michael’s College, U. of Toronto, and Chief Scientist at Ontario College of Art & Design U. in the Strategic Innovation Lab, has a variety of experiences as an academic involved in research in media ecology, complexity theory, information theory, systems biology, environmental science, linguistics, and industrial design. He has published with and collaborated with Marshall McLuhan and continues his McLuhan studies research. He is author and/or editor of:
- The Future of the Library: From Electric Media to Digital Media with Marshall McLuhan.
- Understanding New Media: Extending Marshall McLuhan
- Taking Up McLuhan's Cause: Perspectives on Formal with Corey Anton & Lance Strate
- Causality and Media Ecology.
- McLuhan: Social Media Between Faith and Culture with Domenico Pietropaolo.
- McLuhan Misunderstood: Setting the Record Straight.
- What is Information? – Propagating Organization in the Biosphere, the Symbolosphere, the Technosphere and the Econosphere
- The Poetry of Physics.
- The Extended Mind: The Emergence of Language, the Human Mind and Culture.
- The Alphabet Effect: A Media Ecology Understanding of the Making of Western Civilization
- The Sixth Language: Learning a Living in the Internet Age.
- Collaborate to Compete: Driving Profitability in the Knowledge Economy with Louis W. Stokes.
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