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In 1977, McLuhan did an "informal interview" with his student and chronicler, Carl Scharfe, about T...

By McEwen, on 09/17/2018

Now to-be is diverse; and while diverse, it is yet that ultimate act in proportion to which each bei...

By McEwen, on 07/05/2016

With the exception of its Bibliography and Appendices, Report on Project in Understanding New Media...

By McEwen, on 03/17/2018

In her recent book, Marshall McLuhan's Mosaic (UTP 2012), Elena Lamberti correctly warns that "thos...

By McEwen, on 09/28/2013

The chief weakness of our best criticism today is the pretence that fundamental matters can be profi...

By McEwen, on 06/10/2015

I.A. Richards' materialism did not impress McLuhan when he began his study in the Cambridge English...

By McEwen, on 01/01/2019

In his 1954 lecture, 'Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters' (CHML), McLuhan draws an extended parall...

By McEwen, on 10/31/2014

McLuhan read Havelock's Crucifixion of Intellectual Man soon after it was published in 1951. In i...

By McEwen, on 01/07/2019

I.A. Richards in the 'Introduction' to his 1950 translation of Homer's Iliad: I have been haunted...

By McEwen, on 01/27/2019

McLuhan from the CKLN tapes: We don't understand information movement and image making as warfare...

By McEwen, on 02/16/2019

In an interview with A. John Watson for Watson's bio of Harold Innis, Marginal Man, Ernest Sirluck,...

By McEwen, on 10/09/2015

The Lion and the Fox (1927!): To-day, as though the never-properly-silenced paradoxes of the greek...

By McEwen, on 03/23/2019

The “New Learning” under the ideogram of the mortar can imply whatever men of my generation can...

By McEwen, on 07/27/2017

Predicting the present with pinpoint accuracy, Lewis in The Lion and the Fox (1927) cites from Edwa...

By McEwen, on 03/29/2019

McLuhan had systematically studied all of Shakespeare's plays by the time he left Winnipeg for Cambr...

By McEwen, on 05/20/2015

In 1953 a statement appeared in the Montreal journal CIV/n with the notation from the signatories to...

By McEwen, on 03/27/2019

The central matter in McLuhan's work from start to finish was "an ancient quarrel" he identified as...

By McEwen, on 03/31/2019

From Eliot to Seneca (Review of The Senecan Amble: A Study in Prose from Bacon to Collier) (1953) P...

By McEwen, on 04/02/2019

Georg von Békésy's Experiments in Hearing was published in 1960 and immediately put to use by...

By McEwen, on 03/03/2018

McLuhan discovered the work of Tobias Dantzig (1884-1956) during his travel for Project 69 (as he st...

By McEwen, on 02/28/2018