Abstract
This paper's analysis is based on McLuhan's reference and comments to Heisenberg and Zhuangzi, and focuses on the theme of technology and perception, aiming at an inter-pretation (intertextual interpretation) of the three thinkers. The paper argues that McLuhan goes directly to the unified field of subjecthood by way of electronic media while Heisenberg hovers between the unified fields of subjecthood and of objecthood. Unlike McLuhan and Heisenberg, Zhuangzi is neither subjective nor objective, but enters Dao, the world itself, by sensibility. However, for all of the three, modern technology may lead to aesthetics, that is, there is an aesthetic dimension inherent in modern technology.
First Page
84
Last Page
97
Recommended Citation
Jin, Huimin. 2015. "Technology and Perception: An Inter-Pretation of McLuhan, Heisenberg and Zhuangzi." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 35, (1): pp.84-97. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol35/iss1/19
