The Human Equation: The Constant in Human Development and Culture from Pre-Literacy to Post-Literacy -- Book 1, The Human Equation Toolkit
By Wayne Constantineau and Eric McLuhan
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Mime Wayne Constantineau and scholar Eric McLuhan explore the four possible positions of humans -- standing, lying down, sitting, and kneeling -- as the basis of all developments in culture, science, activity, and media. As they write, "Man is the microcosm of the universe. Media are the extensions of man. The Human Equation is the doorway into all three ... The Human Equation deals with the relation between humans and our media, technologies, languages, theories, and ideas."
Wayne Constantineau
The late Wayne Constantineau was a mime and scholar who left behind him, at his death in 2006, his studies on mime and the insights of Marshall McLuhan. Eric McLuhan, who is bringing these studies to fruition in The Human Equation Toolkit, is also the author of Laws of Media (written with Marshall McLuhan), Electric Language, and The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake. He is also the editor of several collections of his father's work.
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The Human Equation - Wayne Constantineau
THE HUMAN EQUATION
The Human Equation is Book 1 in The Human Equation Toolkit, a series of books and other materials flowing from the life and work of mime and scholar Wayne Constantineau, and the work of Eric McLuhan. (Please see Publisher’s Note at the end of this book.)
THE HUMAN EQUATION
The Constant in Human
Development and Culture
From Pre-Literacy
To Post-Literacy
Book 1
The Human Equation Toolkit
Wayne Constantineau
and
Eric McLuhan
Illustrations by Heidi Overhill
The Human Equation Toolkit Project Team:
Text © 2010 by Eric McLuhan and Heidi Overhill.
Illustrations pp. 85-91 © author unknown.
All rights reserved. No translation or reproduction in any form is permitted without the written consent of the publisher.
ISBN 978-1-926645-34-6
Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available from Library and Archives Canada.
Published in 2010 by
BPS Books
Toronto and New York
bpsbooks.com
A division of
Bastian Publishing Services Ltd.
Acknowledgement
The authors wish to express their gratitude to Henry Rodrigues and Ned Insurance for the generous financial assistance which made it possible to publish this book.
Dedication
Scholar and mime Wayne Constantineau faced his imminent death with grace and fortitude in the summer of 2006, with a small team of supporters gathered around him. Many were close friends of many years, past collaborators in his varied adventures. Dennis and Dianne Hayes provided the central care and comfort that made it possible for Wayne to stay out of hospital in his last months. Others brought cameras, or computers, to help bring his life’s work to fruition in the form of this series of small books and other media. Others gave of their time and skills. This task, which remained only partly finished at his death, is now finding expression through this creation of The Human Equation Toolkit. This work represents, I feel, an important development of the living legacy of media studies left by my father, Marshall McLuhan. I am proud to have been able to complete the writing of this book and the rest of the series.
Eric McLuhan
Prince Edward County, Ontario
Table of Contents
Introduction: Posture and Action
1 / The Human Equation
2 / Proto-Technological Development: Our First Tools
3 / The Equation’s Purpose
4 / The Equation in Planning and Design
5 / The Minimum and Maximum of Universal Wisdom
6 / System Dynamics
7 / Human Language and Communication
8 / From Our Origins to the Electric Age
9 / The Building Blocks of Global Culture
Publisher’s Note
Index of Equations
When the evolutionary process shifts from biology to software technology, the body becomes the old hardware environment. The human body is now a probe, a lab for experiments.
—Marshall McLuhan
The aspects of things that are most important