Acoustic Spaces as Technological Environments. Theoretical and Methodological Suppositions for a Hermeneutics of Territory

Abstract

This essay is based on the conception of spaces as an expression of technological environments, according to Marshall McLuhan’s theory. The main objective is to analyze the comprehension of everyday spaces in diverse historical situations. Therefore, after a general description of the spaces, the exposition focuses on the spaces of primary and secondary speech, and finally, supports the general determination of these spaces upon the understanding of environments as sociocultural processes.