Derrick de Kerckhove

Derrick de Kerkhove (University of Toronto – IN3/UOC)

Derrick de Kerckhove is Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology and Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto. 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. He edited “Understanding 1984″ (UNESCO, 1984) and co-edited with Amilcare Iannucci “McLuhan e la metamorfosi dell’uomo” (Bulzoni, 1984). “The Skin of Culture” (Somerville Press, 1995) is a collection of essays on the new electronic reality, which stayed on Canadian best-sellers lists for several months. “Connected Intelligence” (Somerville, 1997) introduced his research on new media and cognition. His latest book, “The Architecture of Intelligence”, was first issued in Dutch in December 2000, and in English, Italian and German in 2001.