Derrick de Kerckhove

University of Toronto | U of T · Department of French

An exploration of the emerging quantum technological paradigm and its effects on human consciousness and cultures. In Quantum Ecology, Stefano Calzati and Derrick de Kerckhove identify three technological ecologies—linguistic, digital, and quantum—to better understand today's shattered globalized contemporaneity and navigate the impact of soon-to-c...

This article starts with a question: how is your interest in “writing” influencing the perspective on scientific production and publication? With an overview of key concepts arising from a conversation with the guest editor of this issue of diid journal, Eleonora Lupo, and presented in a non-linear reading layout, Derrick De Kerckhove explains his...

Résumé : Il y a une relation étroite entre alphabétisation et identité privée. L’idéologie chrétienne émerge du judaïsme comme une personnalisation de Yahvé, le Dieu des Hébreux, et comme une projection divine de l’autosensibilité naissante. Le message chrétien est plus important que jamais dans un monde globalisé et retribalisé pour faire face à l...

Within the context of the publishing and media system, magazines can be considered as cultural artifacts in constant transformation, not only for technological changes but also for their strict relationship with the sociocultural context. They reflect and contribute to the construction of reality by disseminating various types of content throug...

The personal digital twin extends to individual persons, a concept that originated in engineering to twin complex machines with a digital simulation containing a model of its functions to monitor its past and present behaviour, and repair, correct, improve or otherwise ensure its optimal operation. Several independent trends in technological develo...

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Il volume si concentra sulle relazioni tra le innovazioni tecnologiche e sociali e le nuove opportunità e sfide che si raccolgono intorno al sistema della formazione. La riflessione esplora gli intrecci tra possibili scenari educativi e i contesti sociali, economici e culturali contemporanei. Scenari che si nutrono di innovazione, creatività e con-...

Professores, pesquisadores e centros de pesquisa de diferentes países assinaram um Manifesto Pela Cidadania Digital. O texto está dividido em quatro partes e tem como objetivo apresentar um campo de pesquisa, estudo e reflexão sobre as mudanças aportadas pela web e pelas redes digitais na participação dos cidadãos, nos processos decisórios e na pol...

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We live in mythical times when the consequences of human social behavior find an expression in large events that mark the century, from the Fall of the Berlin Wall, to that of the towers of the World Trade Centre. Our public figures such as Putin, Erdogan, Bush, both Clintons or Trump are tragic figures occupying the world stage and deciding its de...

The ability to innovate is part of human nature, however, it depends on the tools of communication to be practiced systematically. It also requires developing an innovative social attitude. To encourage the development of a creative culture in Italy there is need to focus it on young people because they are the most neglected in the Italian socio-p...

The article metaphorically uses the human limbic system to describe the new system of social interaction created by social networks, exploring the conditions involved in the creation and development of emotions on the Internet, in such a way as to reveal the relation between technology and psychology. In defence of the argument that the immediacy o...

Entrevistado por: Elizabeth Saad Corrêa

Digital persona is a part of the individual identity that has been extended into the online sphere to which corresponds a digital unconscious structuring a digitally divided self. It has personal, social, institutional, legal, scientific and technological aspects that have to be reconsidered to allow for new ways of understanding and managing ident...

Book accompanying the exhibition: Performing Data - Monika Fleischmann + Wolfgang Strauss - 2011/2012 Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, Poland. The book/catalog with DVD and essays by Ryszard W. Kluszczyński, Derrick de Kerckhove, Luca Farulli, Monika Fleischmann + Wolfgang Strauss was released in September 2011. Editor: Krzysztof Miekus...

In this article, we will firstly explore the concept of connected design; secondly, we will explain how environments can be understood as interfaces for knowledge; and thirdly, we will expose the characteristics and objectives of the project Wired Book & Electronic Margin, which is part of a larger project called Universal Margin, as an example of...

A partir de la pel·lícula Avatar, s'analitza el concepte que titula la pel·lícula com a part d'un imaginari objectiu i compartit i com una forma al·legòrica de la lluita del bé contra el mal. A aquesta anàlisi se li suma un repàs de les pel·lícules més recents de la història del cinema que tracten aquesta dimensió i es fa una analogia de l'avatar c...

This interview originally appeared as “InterAction by Design,” in DIID Disegno Industriale, no. 39 (September – October 2009), ed. Lorenzo Imbesi (Roma: RDesign Press). See http://www.disegnoindustriale.net/.

The article analyses the concept that deems the film Avatar part of a shared and objective imaginary, and an allegory for the struggle between good and evil. Alongside this analysis, there is a review of recent films in the history of cinema that have handled these issues, analogising the avatar as a reinvention of Pinocchio for the electronic age....

The digital has revolutionised the notion of space that was formulated on the two-dimensional page in the Renaissance with the discovery of perspective and the printing press. Derrick de Kerckhove and Antonio Tursi explore how our ideas about space have been overturned since the onset of the computer and the many different ways that architects are...

The book presents the research on cultural and communication aspects of the McLuhan legacy seen from the perspective of the epoch of new media - connected intelligence, Web 2.0, social networking, cyber arts, virtual worlds and communities, grassroot design and communication practices. First part consists of six lectures by prof. Derrick de Kerckho...

De Kerckhove's beat is the philosophy of emerging media. When media pundits want to know how McLuhan would interpret the societal consequences of the World Wide Web, they call de Kerckhove.

Este artigo trata da questão das tecnologias e sua relação com a linguagem através da evolução do homem em distintas épocas.

Der »Reader Neue Medien« stellt erstmals im deutschsprachigen Raum Grundlagentexte zum Themenkomplex der »neuen« digitalen und interaktiven Medien- und Kommunikationstechnologien zusammen - kommentiert und erweitert um die relevanten biografischen, sozial- und medienhistorischen Kontexte. Der Schwerpunkt der Textsammlung liegt auf einem kulturwisse...

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 46.3 (2003) 454-456 We take our tools for granted. Even those that we carry on our bodies, such as eyeglasses or palmtops, we consider as add-ons, foreign objects. Although contact lenses or pacemakers acquire a certain degree of intimacy, even they are still perceived as mere "add-ons," not part of our organic...

The changes which Information Technology has brought to all area of our lives have been dramatic. Even in architecture its influence has been far-reaching, creating new processes opening up exciting new prospects. In this book, Peter Eisenman, Derrick de Kerckhove and Antonino Saggio write boldly on the challenges which now face young architects. T...

Argument: The technologies that support or manage language also affect the mind, of necessity, simply because language is a system for the articulation of the mind, a kind of operating system writ large. Language thus entertains a close and intimate relationship with our inmost sensibility and also with both the content and the structure of our min...

Traducción de: Connected intelligence: the arrival of the web society Incluye biblbiografía

Les frontières entre le réel, le virtuel et la fiction s'estompent de plus en plus. La déconstruction progressive des sources théoriques et sensorielles de l'effet de réalité est une invitation à explorer les «alentours de l'esprit ». L'expérimentation virtuelle nourrie par la «fiction scientifique », la fin du passage obligé par l'élaboration litt...

Psychotechnologies are technological extensions of our mind that cover the surface of the earth via radio, telephone and computers. Psychologically, however, we have not matured sufficiently to integrate the extended dimensions of our technological reach. Our response to the planetary environment at the social and political levels is still informed...

II y a un quart de siecle paraissait en traduction francaise La galaxie Gutenberg. Avec une double reaction : une certaine condescendance d'une partie de l'intelligentsia francaise, mais une grande peur des editeurs, lesquels voyaient la fin de leur metier. Les uns et les autres se trompaient, M. McLuhan, respectable professeur de litterature ne so...

L'objet de cet article touche aux fondements meme de toute notre culture occidentale. Dans presque toutes les ecritures alphabetiques, les systemes consonantiques s'ecrivent de droite a gauche alors que les systemes vocaliques s'ecrivent de gauche a droite. Pourquoi ? L'auteur examine quelques types de relations qui viennent renforcer l'hypothese s...

There are two principal categories of writing systems; those representing words, images, or ideas contained in language, and those representing the sound of the languages. Among the latter, there are two main types, those representing so-called “concrete” sounds (Havelock, 1976, 1982), called syllabaries because each sign represents a fully pronoun...

At the end of this book, the biggest question remains: Can one assume that as we are dealing with language, a building block of cognition, there might be a sort of spillover effect from the processing strategies required for reading to the processing strategies required for organizing knowledge and thought in the mind? The suggestion has been made...

The Greeks were not unaware of the importance of the role that writing played in their civilization. Æschylus, the presumed author of Prometheus Bound, put the writing of numbers and letters at the source of all human inventions. The story of Prometheus, who was the object of a special cult in Athens as the god of intelligence and technical skill,...

The object of this chapter is to raise a basic question concerning the underpinnings of Western culture. Did the fully phonetic alphabet invented by the Greeks circa 750 B.C. (for a discussion of a possibly earlier date, see Naveh, 1982) and still used today in Greece (and in the rest of the West in its Latinised version), have a conditioning impac...

The object of this chapter is to present a hypothesis concerning the underpinnings of Western culture. Did the fully phonetic alphabet developed by the Greeks and still used today in Greece (and in the rest of the West in its Latin and Cyrillic variations), have a conditioning impact on the biases of specialized brain processes? The hypothesis is t...

This book is a consequence of the suggestion that a major key to­ ward understanding cognition in any advanced culture is to be found in the relationships between processing orthographies, lan­ guage, and thought. In this book, the contributors attempt to take only the first step, namely to ascertain that there are reliable con­ stancies among the...

This paper explores the relationship between the structure of orthographies and the way they are laid out spatially. Following Robert Lafont (1984) and Geoffrey Sampson (1985), it is argued that orthographies are strongly correlated with specific linguistic features of the languages they represent. The Greek alphabet developed in the high-density a...

Derrick de Kerckhove is an Associate Professor of French at the University of Toronto. He studied communications and media with Marshall McLuhan, and has translated several of his books into French. He has recently written "A Theory of Greek Tragedy," and Sociology of Tragedy to be published in the autumn of 1982. 1. Eric A. Havelock, Preface to Pl...

How does one recognize a "school" of thought ? And why should one? These are questions that, concerning a truly distinctive and now distinguished intellectual trend originating in Toronto, I have entertained since the death of Marshall McLuhan on the last day of 1980. At the time I was impressed by the fact that Harold Innis, Eric Havelock and McLu...

Traducción de: The Skin of Culture

Traducción de: Connected Intelligence

307 p. Que se passera-t-il lorsque tous les ordinateurs du monde pourront être reliés par des réseaux mondiaux à haut débit ? Que se passera-t-il lorsque la somme de toute l'intelligence ainsi connectée dépassera les possibilités des individus isolés ? L'intelligence des réseaux est-elle la prochaine étape de l'évolution humaine ? Dans la lignée d'...

Traducción de: The skin of culture