Derrick De Kerckhove

(Wanze, Belgium, 1944)

Doctor in French Philology and doctor in Sociology of Art. He has been director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology and professor in the French Department at the University of Toronto. He was an associate of the Center for Culture and Technology from 1972 to 1980 and collaborated with Marshall McLuhan for more than ten years as translator, assistant and co-author.

He has edited books such as “Understanding 1984” (UNESCO, 1984) and co-edited with Amilcare Iannucci “McLuhan e la metamorfosi dell'uomo” (1984). Among other works, he published “The Skin of Culture” (1995), a collection of essays about the new electronic reality that remained on the lists of best-selling titles in Canada for several months, “Connected Intelligence” (1997) where he presented his research about new media and cognition or “The Architecture of Intelligence”.

Participated in Medialab Madrid banquete05 within the colloquium “Technological transformation of the
communication and sociocultural change”.