December 2024

• Between gods and their times - posted in McLuhan's Catholicism, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Relativity and Topology, State of the world, Time and times
• Brooks & Wimsatt cite McLuhan - posted in Brooks, Medium, Poe

November 2024

• McLuhan and Aristotle 5 (dualisms in 1944) - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Aristotle, Biography, Katabasis, Köhler, Language, McLuhan's Catholicism, Medium, Mythology, Report on Project in Understanding New Media
• McLuhan and Aristotle 4 (Synthesis between Plato and Aristotle?) - posted in Aquinas, Aristotle, Biography, Communication, Complementarity, Dialogue, Gilson, McLuhan's Catholicism, Medium, Metaphor, Original complexity

October 2024

• McLuhan and Aristotle 3 (the Stagirite as dialectician) - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Aquinas, Aristotle, Biography, Complementarity, Full range, Plato
• McLuhan and Aristotle 2 (Maritain's Introduction) - posted in Aristotle, Full range, Maritain, Original complexity, Phelan, Plato, Senses, Tactility
• McLuhan and Aristotle 1 (first encounters) - posted in Aquinas, Aristotle, Biography, Coleridge, Elsie, Plato

September 2024

• Frye’s References to McLuhan in his Collected Works - posted in Biography, Frye, Language

August 2024

• Malinowski’s “new science” of culture (part 2) - posted in Chemistry, Language, Medium, Science, State of the world, Survival
• Malinowski's "new science" of culture (part 1) - posted in Language, Making and Matching, Mythology, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Richards, State of the world
• On the imbalance between physical and social science - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Complementarity, Dialogue, Havelock, Science, State of the world, Survival

July 2024

• Laws of the Media in the 1970s - posted in Bias of Communication, Complementarity, Language, Laws of Media, Science

June 2024

• Contesting twofolds in Egypt and Greece - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Eliot, Full range, Gap, Gigantomachia, Hegel, Incarnation, Light and Dark, Medium, Mythology, Ontological/ontic

May 2024

• Kenner on McLuhan, the universal sage - posted in Aristotle, Biography, Eliot, Elsie, Kenner, Mallarmé, Pound
• Reborn from ruin - posted in Aquinas, Aristotle, Biography, Fly and Flybottle, Katabasis, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Second Conversion, State of the world
• First words on the moon - posted in Alice, Gap, Language, Predicting the present, State of the world
• McLuhan's contributions - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Aristotle, Full range, Innis, Katabasis, Language, Laws of Media, Making and Matching, Medium, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Plato, Science, State of the world, Survival

April 2024

• Dobbs: Hand signals for the blind - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Communication, Fly and Flybottle, Language
• Dobbs: McLuhan on Nam June Paik - posted in Biography, Figure/Ground, Single and Double Perspective
• Dobbs: McLuhan on copy and original - posted in Fly and Flybottle, Single and Double Perspective, State of the world
• Dobbs: McLuhan on what's the difference - posted in Time and times
• Dobbs: a telling problem - posted in Biography, Communication
• Bio statement from 1944 - posted in Biography, Brooks, Leavis, Richards, Sewanee Review
• Dobbs: McLuhan on how much truth you got - posted in Common sense, Medium, State of the world

March 2024

• Yeats' rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Bias of Communication, Chemistry, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Predicting the present, Propaganda, State of the world, Survival
• Dilworth: McLuhan on The Waste Land - posted in Eliot, Katabasis, Predicting the present, State of the world, Time and times, Water

January 2024

• McLuhan and Kenner (the plotline of Dublin’s Joyce) - posted in Education, Effects before causes, Exploring ignorance, Gutenberg Galaxy, Joyce, Katabasis, Kenner, Language, Light through, Plato, The main question
• McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin’s Joyce, chap 6) - posted in Bradbrook, Giedion, Joyce, Kenner
• Chaos and confusion in 1948 - posted in Aquinas, Chesterton, Interior Landscape, Kenner, Phelan, Shakespeare, State of the world, Typhon in America
• McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin’s Joyce, chap 5) - posted in Centre and Margin, Figure/Ground, Incarnation, Joyce, Kenner, Language, Light through, McLuhan's Catholicism, Ong, St Louis, State of the world
• McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin’s Joyce, chap 4) - posted in Full range, Gap, Joyce, Lodge, Time and times, Typhon in America, Wright, Yeats
• McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin’s Joyce, chap 3) - posted in Communication, Effects before causes, Gap, Joyce, Kenner, Language, Making and Matching, Phelan, Second Conversion, Water
• McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin’s Joyce, chap 2) - posted in Gnosticism, John Watson, Joyce, Kenner, Language, Lewis, Light through, Lodge, Nihilism, Winnipeg School of Communications, Wright
• McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin's Joyce, chap 1) - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Gnosticism, Joyce, Kenner, Language, Making and Matching, Nobody, Phelan, State of the world

December 2023

• Euclid and effect - posted in Aristotle, Centre and Margin, Complementarity, Dialogue, Dynamics, Effects before causes, Figure/Ground, Gap, Incarnation, Making and Matching, Medium, Merger, Metaphor, Plato, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Tactility
• Faculty of Interrelation in Toronto - posted in Communication, Education, Explorations, Giedion, Innis
• "Arrest in time" in McLuhan - posted in Coleridge, Innis, Joyce, Language, Mallarmé
• "Arrest in time" in Lewis - posted in Language, Lewis, Propaganda, State of the world, Time and times

November 2023

• McLuhan and Plato 14: "nothing exists in itself" - posted in Aristotle, Complementarity, Dialogue, Figure/Ground, Gap, Inclusive Exclusive, Making and Matching, Medium, Plato, Single and Double Perspective, State of the world, Survival
• Evolution: shift from biology to technology - posted in Communication, Lewis, Nietzsche, Physics, State of the world
• The representative ferment - posted in Aristotle, Dynamics, Katabasis, Lewis, Plato, Single and Double Perspective, Skornia

October 2023

• Mimesis in Laws of Media - posted in Havelock, Language, Laws of Media, Making and Matching, Merger
• Wyndham Lewis, Paleface, comments - posted in Epyllion, Full range, Language, Lewis, Making and Matching, Nietzsche, Nihilism, Ontological/ontic
• Paleface (Introduction to Part ii) - posted in Bias of Communication, Communication, Fly and Flybottle, Language, Laws of Media, Lewis, Nietzsche, Science
• Mimesis - posted in Aristotle, Beginnings, thresholds, Centre and Margin, Communication, Complementarity, Dialogue, Dynamics, Gap, Language, Making and Matching, Ontological/ontic, Pound
• Nous poietikos, agent intellect - posted in Aristotle, Biography, Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters, Sewanee Review
• Simulation - posted in Aristotle, Chemistry, Making and Matching, Science, Skornia
• McLuhan and Plato 13: epyllion - posted in Aristotle, Dialogue, Education, Epyllion, Plato
• Predicting the present - posted in Biography, Predicting the present, State of the world

September 2023

• Global Conference on the Future - posted in Biography
• Minotaur - posted in Bacon, Joyce, Katabasis, Mechanical Bride, Mythology
• Easterbrook on Innis - posted in Centre and Margin, Easterbrook, Figure/Ground, Giedion, Innis, Science, Williams, Winnipeg School of Communications
• Crump's Epyllion - posted in Epyllion, Figure/Ground, Innis, Language, Mallarmé, The main question

August 2023

• Gutenberg Quincentenary 1940 - posted in Gutenberg Galaxy, Innis, Mallarmé, Medium, Pound
• James Tenney and Wolfgang Köhler - posted in Complementarity, Figure/Ground, Interior Landscape, Köhler, Music, Pound
• The kinetic sense - posted in Complementarity, Dynamics, Gap, Medium, Metaphor, Senses, Tactility

July 2023

• The spectacle of redemption - posted in Epyllion, Joyce, Language, Percept/concept, Skornia, The impersonal
• Quantum considerations - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Inclusive Exclusive, Medium, Physics, Science, Transcriptions of the Atomic Table
• Extra sensory perception - posted in Common sense, Incarnation, Original complexity, Skornia, Tactility
• Pre-tribal awareness - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Beginnings, thresholds, Bias of Communication, Communication, Exploring ignorance, Incarnation, Laws of Media, Science, State of the world, Tactility
• Wheeler and McLuhan - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Centre and Margin, Chemistry, Complementarity, Dynamics, Figure/Ground, Full range, Gigantomachia, Gnosticism, Laws of Media, Medium, Physics, Science, Survival

June 2023

• Going quantum - posted in Laws of Media, Physics, Science, State of the world

May 2023

• Solution lies in the problem - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Effects before causes, Exploring ignorance, Full range, Laws of Media, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Original complexity, Science
• McLuhan and Plato 12 -- Cratylus - posted in Language, Making and Matching, Plato, Science
• Inclusive consciousness - posted in Acoustic space, Aristotle, Bacon, Complementarity, Original complexity, Plato, Single and Double Perspective, Skornia
• McLuhan replays Elsie - posted in Acoustic space, Elsie, Language
• McLuhan on Dali TV Guide cover - posted in Language
• Dali Visage paranoïaque - posted in Bias of Communication, Figure/Ground, Painting, Single and Double Perspective, State of the world
• Pasteur - posted in Complementarity, Figure/Ground, Full range, Interior Landscape, Laws of Media, NAEB, Science, Single and Double Perspective, State of the world, Understanding Media

April 2023

• Dali TV Guide interview: watch TV upside down - posted in Communication, Cybernetics, Exploring ignorance, Painting, Science
• Ear-view mirror - posted in Acoustic space, Communication, Dialogue, Joyce, Language, Making and Matching, Medium, Mis-Taking McLuhan
• DNA - posted in Dialogue, Exploring ignorance, Katabasis, Light and Dark, Science, State of the world, Survival, Tactility
• Archimedes - posted in Centre and Margin, Medium, Ontological/ontic, Predicting the present, State of the world

February 2023

• Hominization of the planet 2 - posted in Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters, Dialogue, Dynamics, Figure/Ground, Heidegger, Language, Original complexity
• Multi-space dialogue in Greece - posted in Acoustic space, Beginnings, thresholds, Havelock, The main question, Time and times
• Through the vanishing point with Nietzsche - posted in Effects before causes, Nietzsche, Nihilism, State of the world, Take Today
• Hominization of the planet 1 - posted in Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters, Dialogue, Dynamics, Incarnation, Language, Metaphor, The Global Village
• McLuhan's communication problem - posted in Communication, Effects before causes, Exploring ignorance, Nietzsche, State of the world, The impersonal, Through the Vanishing Point

January 2023

• The vortex of the living community - posted in Maelstrom, Poe, Science, The impersonal
• A whole new genus of sciences - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Bias of Communication, Exploring ignorance, Hegel, Innis, Introduction and Overview, Language, Medium, Nashe thesis, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Science, State of the world, Understanding Media, Vico
• McLuhan & Peterson: competing fundamental myths 2 - posted in Exploring ignorance, Figure/Ground, Gap, Katabasis, Light through, Nietzsche, Nihilism, Nobody, Peterson, State of the world, The impersonal
• McNamara's band - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Full range, Interior Landscape, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Predicting the present, Time and times
• Future of the human species - posted in Biography, State of the world, Survival
• McLuhan's advice to Leary - posted in Cybernetics, Full range, Medium, Through the Vanishing Point
• Ian Hacking and the Toronto School of Communication - posted in Dialogue, Effects before causes, Fly and Flybottle, Language, Medium, Science
• Innis or Havelock? - posted in Full range, Havelock, Innis, Laws of Media, Medium, Nashe thesis

December 2022

• 3 types of space - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Acoustic space, Beginnings, thresholds, Bias of Communication, Chemistry, Dynamics, Figure/Ground, Gap, Incarnation, Language, Laws of Media, Medium, Metaphor, Nashe thesis, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Preference, privilege, Science, Tactility
• Genitives, times and essential types - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Bias of Communication, Chemistry, Communication, Dynamics, Figure/Ground, Full range, Language, Laws of Media, Laws of Media, Light through, Medium, Ontological/ontic, Science, State of the world, Survival, Time and times
• What was McLuhan up to? - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Bias of Communication, Communication, Complementarity, Hegel, Science, State of the world

November 2022

• Escape from the cul-de-sac - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Bias of Communication, Dynamics, Exploring ignorance, Light through, Medium, Predicting the present, State of the world, Survival
• Bacon and Vico - posted in Bacon, Beginnings, thresholds, Bias of Communication, Dynamics, Exploring ignorance, Figure/Ground, Language, Science, Vico
• McLuhan on Vico - posted in Bacon, Beginnings, thresholds, Exploring ignorance, Figure/Ground, Language, Light and Dark, Light through, Ontological/ontic, Science, State of the world, Vico
• McDonald on McLuhan's utopianism - posted in Language, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Senses, Single and Double Perspective, State of the world

October 2022

• G.S. Brett - posted in Gutenberg Galaxy, Nobody, Poe, The impersonal, Williams, Winnipeg School of Communications, Wright
• McDonald on Humboldt and McLuhan - posted in Complementarity, Figure/Ground, Fly and Flybottle, Language, Maelstrom, Making and Matching, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Nietzsche, State of the world, Survival, Time and times
• The entire range of human expressiveness - posted in Full range, Joyce, Original complexity, Science
• Thoth: "the third ends the discord of the two" - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Gigantomachia, Light and Dark, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Plato, State of the world
• Olympus, Pelion and Ossa in Hamlet - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Exploring ignorance, Gigantomachia, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Shakespeare
• McLuhan and Plato 8½ – Gigantomachia in the Symposium - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Communication, Complementarity, Dialogue, Dynamics, Figure/Ground, Gap, Gigantomachia, Incarnation, Medium, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Plato, Shakespeare, The main question, Time and times
• McLuhan ABC ad on "friendly teamness" - posted in Communication, Complementarity, Dialogue, Medium
• Mac to Lewis, 1944 - posted in Lewis, Maelstrom, Poe, Sewanee Review

September 2022

• McLuhan versus The Prison House of Language 1 - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Dynamics, Figure/Ground, Fly and Flybottle, Language, Metaphor, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Predicting the present, Time and times

August 2022

• WSCM 6: Reading Wright - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Biography, Complementarity, Dialogue, Education, Winnipeg School of Communications, Wright
• WSCM 5: Watson Kirkconnell - posted in Biography, Education, Elsie, Language, Winnipeg School of Communications
• WSCM 4: Tom Easterbrook - posted in Dialogue, Easterbrook, Education, Elsie, Explorations, Friends, Innis, Language, McLuhan's Catholicism, Winnipeg School of Communications
• WSCM 3: Carl Williams & Kelvin - posted in Acoustic space, Biography, Communication, Friends, Williams, Winnipeg School of Communications
• WSCM anteroom: peace in the global village? - posted in Biography, Dialogue, State of the world, The main question, Winnipeg School of Communications
• WSCM 2: Gertrude Avenue connection - posted in Biography, Hayakawa, Winnipeg School of Communications
• Havelock in 1940 - posted in Communication, Education, Havelock, Innis, Language, Medium
• WSCM 1: Winnipeg in 1920 - posted in Biography, Hayakawa, Lodge, Winnipeg School of Communications, Wright
• Portrait of Rupert Clendon Lodge - posted in Biography, Education, Lodge, Winnipeg School of Communications
• Portrait of Henry Wilkes Wright - posted in Biography, Winnipeg School of Communications, Wright
• Wright on matter and spirit in 1917 - posted in Education, Language, Medium, Time and times, Winnipeg School of Communications, Wright
• Havelock in db of classical scholars - posted in Alphabet, Havelock, Language, Medium
• Lodge in db of classical scholars - posted in Biography, Lodge, Winnipeg School of Communications

July 2022

• The earwig when bisected fights itself - posted in Inclusive Exclusive, Joyce, Lewis, Predicting the present, Single and Double Perspective, State of the world
• Buick ad 1947 - posted in Dynamics, Effects before causes, Figure/Ground, Interior Landscape, Mallarmé, Typhon in America
• Typhon/Minotaur/Dionysus parallels - posted in Bacon, Gigantomachia, Gnosticism, Light and Dark, Mythology, Typhon in America
• MacLevy's Figurama - posted in Language

June 2022

• McLuhan and Winters 2 - posted in Bias of Communication, Giedion, Gnosticism, Light through, Metaphor, Ontological/ontic, Sewanee Review, State of the world
• McLuhan and Winters 1 - posted in Brooks, Epyllion, Incarnation, Medium, Metaphor
• Plenary consciousness 2 - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Effects before causes, Figure/Ground, Fly and Flybottle, Full range, Gap, Incarnation, Inclusive Exclusive, McLuhan's Catholicism, Muller-Thym, Nihilism, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, State of the world

May 2022

• Plenary consciousness (McLuhan and Hegel) - posted in Empson, Film, Full range, Hegel, Inclusive Exclusive, Lodge, Maelstrom, Richards, Winnipeg School of Communications, Wright
• Hayakawa to McLuhan in 1968 - posted in Biography, Hayakawa, Winnipeg School of Communications
• McLuhan and Hayakawa in Louisville 1954 - posted in Explorations, Hayakawa, Winnipeg School of Communications
• Moholy-Nagy 2 (Hayakawa) - posted in Giedion, Hayakawa, Winnipeg School of Communications
• Moholy-Nagy 1 (Giedion on M-N in 1936) - posted in Film, Giedion, Light and Dark, Light through, Science

April 2022

• Classroom without walls - posted in Biography, Education, Explorations, Lodge, NAEB, Nashe thesis, State of the world
• Classroom TV (1956) - posted in Education, Medium
• NAEB grant for "understanding media" - posted in Biography, NAEB, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Skornia

March 2022

• Connubium of Being 3 - posted in Centre and Margin, Explorations, Fly and Flybottle, Giedion, Gutenberg Galaxy, Ontological/ontic, Take Today
• Connubium of Being 2 - posted in Figure/Ground, Joyce, Jung, Light through, Mythology, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, State of the world, Take Today, War and Peace in the Global Village

February 2022

• Eliot's bread - posted in Biography, Eliot, McLuhan's Catholicism

January 2022

• Connubium of Being 1 - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Chemistry, Complementarity, Gap, Gigantomachia, Inclusive Exclusive, Innis, Laws of Media, Making and Matching, McLuhan's Catholicism, Medium, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Science, Second Conversion, State of the world, Survival, War and Peace in the Global Village
• Elsie on the move - posted in Acoustic space, Biography, Complementarity, Elsie, Exploring ignorance
• East & west, horizontal & vertical - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Mallarmé, McLuhan's Catholicism, Pound, Second Conversion
• End/beginning of FW - posted in Complementarity, Incarnation, Joyce, Original complexity, Water

December 2021

• St Kevin's tub - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Exploring ignorance, Figure/Ground, Fly and Flybottle, Gap, Incarnation, Joyce, Ontological/ontic, Time and times, Water
• Poetic vs Rhetorical Exegesis 2: a question of ontology - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Beginnings, thresholds, Eliot, Figure/Ground, Full range, Language, Leavis, Lodge, Nashe thesis, Nietzsche, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, State of the world
• Poetic vs Rhetorical Exegesis 1 - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Biography, Communication, Eliot, Empson, Exploring ignorance, Gap, Incarnation, Language, Leavis, Ontological/ontic, Richards, State of the world, Survival

November 2021

• Pound's Guide to Kulchur - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Figure/Ground, Lewis, Making and Matching, Pound, Science
• Seneca - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Communication, Complementarity, Eliot, Language, Menippean satire, Original complexity
• Tactility - posted in Acoustic space, Common sense, Communication, Complementarity, Dialogue, Figure/Ground, Full range, Gap, Laws of Media, Original complexity, Science, Senses, Tactility, Understanding Media, Winnipeg School of Communications
• Membrane - posted in Centre and Margin, Dialogue, Dynamics, Empson, Gap, Gutenberg Galaxy, Medium, Physics, Relativity and Topology, Take Today, Water
• "Anybody can now be made famous" - posted in Biography, Exploring ignorance, Incarnation, Katabasis, Laws of Media, State of the world, The impersonal
• Centre and margin -- Coleridge - posted in Centre and Margin, Coleridge, Richards, Science

October 2021

• Centre and margin overview - posted in Biography, Centre and Margin, Communication, Fly and Flybottle, Innis, Laws of Media
• Optophone 3: "carry everywhere the reflection of its delight" - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Common sense, Dialogue, Dynamics, Figure/Ground, Katabasis, Language, Laws of Media, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Physics, Senses
• Optophone 2 - posted in Joyce, Language, Light and Dark, Light through, Mythology, Original complexity
• Optophone 1 - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Bias of Communication, Communication, Explorations, Joyce, Music, Physics, Senses
• Tis optophone which ontophanes - posted in Acoustic space, Beginnings, thresholds, Biography, Communication, Dynamics, Full range, Joyce, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Plato
• Illusion and Reality - posted in Innis, Language, Making and Matching, Medium, Painting

September 2021

• Voegelin letters background - posted in Biography, Brooks, Chesterton, Communication, Education, Giedion, Gilson, Giovanelli, Great Books, Leavis, Nashe thesis, State of the world, Survival
• McLuhan's "secret societies" problem - posted in Bias of Communication, Centre and Margin, Innis, Language, Light and Dark, Making and Matching, Merger, Predicting the present, Preference, privilege, Propaganda, State of the world, Survival, Voegelin
• Innis on thought and its eclipse (PEMS 7) - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Bias of Communication, Common sense, Communication, Figure/Ground, Innis, Original complexity, Science
• Innis multiplying Hugo (PEMS 6) - posted in Bias of Communication, Exploring ignorance, Innis, Katabasis, Language, Medium, Nihilism, Original complexity, State of the world, Survival
• Hugo on Gutenberg in 1831: the second tower of Babel - posted in Innis, Language, Medium
• Innis on limitation (PEMS 5) - posted in Dynamics, Exploring ignorance, Fly and Flybottle, Innis, Katabasis, Language, Nihilism, State of the world
• 'The Later Innis' and quantum mechanics - posted in Bohm, Communication, Heisenberg, Innis, Joyce, Language, Laws of Media, Making and Matching, Medium, Physics, Science

August 2021

• Innis on the eclipse of truth (PEMS 4) - posted in Common sense, Complementarity, Dialogue, Figure/Ground, Innis, Original complexity, Plato, State of the world, Survival
• Innis on the state of the world in 2021 (PEMS 3) - posted in Innis, Language, Predicting the present, Propaganda, State of the world, Survival
• Media Man in National Lampoon - posted in Biography
• Innis on media revolutions (PEMS 2) - posted in Complementarity, Deutsch, Figure/Ground, Innis, Original complexity, State of the world, Wiener
• The Electronic Revolution and the Undeveloped Countries of the Mind - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Biography, Full range
• Innis citing Trollope on CV-building - posted in Education, Innis, Predicting the present, State of the world
• McLuhan reads Innis (PEMS 1) - posted in Coleridge, Communication, Easterbrook, Innis, Medium, Propaganda, State of the world, Survival

July 2021

• Easterbrook on Innis and McLuhan in 1960 - posted in Bias of Communication, Biography, Chemistry, Communication, Easterbrook, Eliot, Gap, Innis, Katabasis, Laws of Media, Light and Dark, Medium, Plato, Predicting the present, Science, State of the world, Survival, The main question, Time and times
• McLuhan on media science in 1958 - posted in Education, Effects before causes, Full range, Gap, Laws of Media, Medium, NAEB, Science, State of the world, Survival
• Peterson on Eliot's knot - posted in Dynamics, Eliot, Exploring ignorance, Katabasis, Language, Light and Dark, Maelstrom, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Peterson, State of the world, Time and times
• McLuhan & Peterson: competing fundamental myths 1 - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Beginnings, thresholds, Exploring ignorance, Figure/Ground, Fly and Flybottle, Full range, Gap, Gigantomachia, Laws of Media, Medium, Mythology, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Peterson, Predicting the present, State of the world, The main question, Time and times

June 2021

• Peterson: time or times? - posted in Aristotle, Beginnings, thresholds, Centre and Margin, Dynamics, Exploring ignorance, Full range, Mythology, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Peterson, Plato, State of the world, The impersonal, The main question, Time and times
• Peterson and the fabled 'thing in itself' - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Figure/Ground, Fly and Flybottle, Heisenberg, Nietzsche, Nobody, Peterson, State of the world, The main question
• Yeats on the emotion of multitude - posted in Aristotle, Beginnings, thresholds, Figure/Ground, Full range, Influences, Nietzsche, Original complexity, Plato, Yeats
• Zarathustra: Listen to me even with your eyes! - posted in Centre and Margin, Complementarity, Exploring ignorance, Nietzsche, The impersonal
• Jordan Peterson on the hero - posted in Exploring ignorance, Figure/Ground, Fly and Flybottle, Gigantomachia, Incarnation, Language, Nietzsche, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Peterson, State of the world, The main question, Time and times
• Jordan Peterson and Marshall McLuhan - posted in Effects before causes, Exploring ignorance, McLuhan's Catholicism, Nietzsche, Peterson, Survival, The impersonal, The main question, Time and times

May 2021

• Global village in 1954 - posted in Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters, Wright

April 2021

• Point and circumference in 1939 - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Biography, Centre and Margin, Gilson, Laws of Media, McLuhan's Catholicism, Muller-Thym, Original complexity, Science, State of the world

March 2021

• Nihilism stands at the door - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Biography, Exploring ignorance, Fly and Flybottle, McLuhan's Catholicism, Nietzsche, Nihilism, Nobody, Predicting the present, State of the world, Survival
• Meaning as an arrow - posted in Biography, Centre and Margin, Figure/Ground, Fly and Flybottle, Language, Preference, privilege, Science, State of the world, Survival
• First meeting with Wyndham Lewis - posted in Biography, Elsie, Giovanelli, Lewis

February 2021

• Medium in America and Cosmic Man - posted in Dialogue, Giedion, Gigantomachia, Gutenberg Galaxy, Laws of Media, Lewis, Pound, Science, Survival, Water, Whitehead
• Taking flight - posted in Communication, Fly and Flybottle, Full range, Gap, Making and Matching, Medium, Nobody, Original complexity, Science, State of the world, Tactility
• Jung on praeceptores mundi - posted in Dynamics, Gutenberg Galaxy, Jung, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Original complexity, Percept/concept, The main question, Time and times, Transcriptions of the Atomic Table

January 2021

• Jung on the interior landscape - posted in Exploring ignorance, Interior Landscape, Jung
• Jung on "the energetics of the life process" - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Centre and Margin, Complementarity, Dialogue, Dynamics, Epyllion, Exploring ignorance, Figure/Ground, Jung, Medium, Merger
• Translating McLuhan to McLuhan - posted in Chemistry, Language, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Science, Senses, State of the world, Survival, Time and times

December 2020

• Citadel of inclusive awareness - posted in Centre and Margin, Common sense, Dialogue, Language, The impersonal
• Dating key terms - posted in Acoustic space, Figure/Ground, Gap, Language, Medium, Mythology, NAEB, Nobody, Percept/concept, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Skornia, Tactility, Winnipeg School of Communications

November 2020

• Burroughs on 'Literary Techniques' - posted in Acoustic space, Dialogue, Dynamics, Language, Light through, Single and Double Perspective, Time and times
• McLuhan reads Burroughs - posted in Acoustic space, Communication, Gap, Language, Time and times
• Statement on Culture and Technology - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Eliot, Giedion, Innis, Language, Richards, Senses, State of the world
• Garbage Apocalypse - posted in Acoustic space, Beginnings, thresholds, Bias of Communication, Heidegger, Language, Mythology, Original complexity, Physics, Predicting the present, State of the world
• Harry Skornia, peace activist - posted in Bias of Communication, Exploring ignorance, NAEB, Predicting the present, Propaganda, Skornia, State of the world
• McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1973-1974 - posted in Language
• McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1963 - posted in Biography, Education
• McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1964 - posted in Biography, Education
• McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1965 - posted in Biography, Easterbrook, Education, Friends, Winnipeg School of Communications
• McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1966 - posted in Biography, Education
• Patterns of Literary Criticism  - posted in Biography, Education, Sirluck, Winnipeg School of Communications
• McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1967 - posted in Education, State of the world
• Porter in UT President’s Report 1968 - posted in Education
• McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1969 - posted in Asia, Education, State of the world
• McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1971 - posted in Education, Predicting the present, State of the world
• McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1970 - posted in Education, Figure/Ground, Predicting the present, State of the world
• McLuhan in UT President's Report 1972 - posted in Education, Nevitt, Predicting the present, State of the world

October 2020

• Wheel and Axle - posted in Centre and Margin, Chemistry, Figure/Ground, Full range, Laws of Media, Medium, Merger, Nobody, Science, Tactility, The impersonal, Transcriptions of the Atomic Table
• McLuhan 1974 letter to Murray Schafer - posted in Acoustic space, Friends, Music
• The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 9 - posted in Biography, Gutenberg Galaxy
• The Law of Media 1 - posted in Exploring ignorance, Laws of Media, NAEB, Nashe thesis, Science, Survival

September 2020

• The Law of Media 2 - posted in Exploring ignorance, Figure/Ground, Medium, Science, Survival
• Frye’s References to McLuhan in Correspondence - posted in Biography, Friends, St Michael's
• McLuhan's "flush-profile" review of Frye - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Centre and Margin, Chemistry, Full range, Gap, Laws of Media, Medium, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Physics, Plato, Science, The impersonal
• Comments on Elder’s comments on Barilli 2 - posted in Exploring ignorance, Figure/Ground, Mis-Taking McLuhan, NAEB, Science, Skornia, State of the world
• Maritain on Phelan - posted in Maritain, Phelan
• Comments on Elder's comments on Barilli - posted in Aquinas, Aristotle, Gap, McLuhan's Catholicism, Medium, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Science, Time and times
• Dating McLuhan's "flush-profile" review of Frye - posted in Biography, NAEB, St Michael's
• McLuhan at the crossroads - posted in Biography, Dynamics, Lewis, Medium, Plato, Science, Time and times
• The Art of Being Ruled (de Kerckhove 3) - posted in Lewis, Predicting the present, Propaganda, Science, St Louis, State of the world, The impersonal, Time and times

August 2020

• "A genus of homicidal puppets, sure enough" (de Kerckhove 2) - posted in Innis, Lewis, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Predicting the present, Propaganda, State of the world
• de Kerckhove's Digital Transformation 1 - posted in Innis, Lewis, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Propaganda, State of the world
• The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 8 - posted in Biography, Gutenberg Galaxy, NAEB, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Skornia
• Percept and concept 1 - posted in Bacon, Beginnings, thresholds, Chemistry, Dialogue, Exploring ignorance, Figure/Ground, Percept/concept, Science, State of the world, Whitehead
• Pugen's time - posted in Dialogue, Dynamics, Exploring ignorance, Figure/Ground, McLuhan's Catholicism, Predicting the present, State of the world, Time and times, Wright
• Ignatov on Maritain on Bergson 2 - posted in Eliot, Exploring ignorance, Film, Maritain, Medium, Nihilism, State of the world
• Ignatov on Maritain on Bergson 1 - posted in Maritain, Medium, Original complexity, The main question, Time and times

July 2020

• Maelstrom in Ertrog and Yeats - posted in Friends, Maelstrom, Single and Double Perspective, Time and times, Yeats
• Marshall foresees Zoom - posted in NAEB, Predicting the present, Skornia, State of the world
• McLuhan on Whitehead - posted in Chemistry, Effects before causes, Laws of Media, Lodge, Original complexity, Science, The main question

June 2020

• McLuhan to Skornia 6/8/59 - posted in Aquinas, Aristotle, Chemistry, NAEB, Preference, privilege, Science, Skornia
• McLuhan to Skornia 6/7/59: "We can't assume that we understand media already!" - posted in Exploring ignorance, Laws of Media, Medium, NAEB, Science, Skornia, State of the world
• McLuhan to Skornia 6/5/59 - posted in Dynamics, NAEB, Science, Skornia
• McLuhan to Skornia 6/4/59 - posted in Communication, Exploring ignorance, Heisenberg, NAEB, Science, Skornia, State of the world
• McLuhan to Skornia early June 1959 - posted in Dialogue, NAEB, Predicting the present, Science, Skornia
• Present as history, history as present 5/29-59 - posted in Chemistry, Figure/Ground, Science, Skornia
• McLuhan to Skornia 3/14/59 - posted in Dialogue, NAEB, Skornia
• McLuhan on dialogue February 1959 - posted in Common sense, Communication, Complementarity, Dialogue, Inclusive Exclusive, NAEB, Original complexity, Single and Double Perspective, Skornia
• Media Log II - posted in Making and Matching, NAEB, Painting, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Science, State of the world, The main question
• Report on Washington Educational TV conference (May 1958) - posted in Bias of Communication, NAEB, Skornia
• McLuhan to Skornia 1/25/59 (Cassirer) - posted in Bias of Communication, Communication, Dialogue, Education, Film, Light through, NAEB, Original complexity, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Science, Skornia, State of the world
• McLuhan to Skornia 1/25/59 - posted in Dialogue, NAEB, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Science, Skornia

May 2020

• Psycho-dynamics (the medium is the message) - posted in Chemistry, Figure/Ground, Laws of Media, NAEB, Original complexity, Science, Shakespeare, Transcriptions of the Atomic Table
• Birthpains of the new: "an arduous metamorphosis" - posted in Biography, Coleridge, Katabasis, NAEB, Pound, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Skornia
• What is the basis of prediction? - posted in Biography, Chemistry, Coleridge, Explorations, Figure/Ground, NAEB, Predicting the present, Science, State of the world, Transcriptions of the Atomic Table
• McLuhan NAEB presentation 9/23/59 - posted in Bias of Communication, Biography, Communication, Laws of Media, Light through, NAEB, Science
• "A medium is the sum total of all its impact" - posted in Chemistry, Common sense, Making and Matching, Science, Skornia
• Chemistry of the interior landscape 2 - posted in Chemistry, Dialogue, Figure/Ground, Full range, Light through, Mythology, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Science, Skornia
• "Understanding is not a point of view" - posted in Communication, Full range, Language, Plato, Science, State of the world
• On the subliminal 1 - posted in Biography, Chemistry, Complementarity, Figure/Ground, Laws of Media, Original complexity, Science, Time and times
• Und so weiter! (the gap) - posted in Gap, Gigantomachia, Gutenberg Galaxy, Merger, NAEB, Original complexity, Science, Single and Double Perspective, Skornia, Tactility
• From world to worlds - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Biography, Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters, Explorations, Exploring ignorance, Laws of Media, Lewis, McLuhan's Catholicism, Merger, NAEB, Nietzsche, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Skornia
• McLuhan on Burroughs - posted in Biography, Lewis, Maelstrom, Merger, Nietzsche, Nihilism, St Louis, State of the world, Understanding Media
• Grammars of the Media - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Bias of Communication, Communication, NAEB, Science, Skornia
• Defending the print medium in 1958 - posted in Biography, Chemistry, Education, Mechanical Bride, NAEB, Original complexity, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Science, Skornia, State of the world

April 2020

• The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 7 - posted in Biography, Chemistry, Gutenberg Galaxy, Laws of Media, NAEB, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Skornia, Time and times
• The goal of science 6/25/59 - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Centre and Margin, Language, NAEB, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Science, Skornia
• Becker on NDEA Title VII funding - posted in Mis-Taking McLuhan, NAEB, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Science, Skornia
• McNamee and Ong remember McLuhan - posted in Biography, McLuhan's Catholicism, Nashe thesis, Ong, St Louis
• R.C. Williams' Assessment of McLuhan - posted in Biography, McLuhan's Catholicism, NAEB, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Skornia, St Louis
• Marshall, Harry and Baudelaire - posted in Complementarity, Light through, Mallarmé, NAEB, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Skornia
• Defining the Understanding Media project - posted in Figure/Ground, Laws of Media, NAEB, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Science, Skornia
• Charge of the light brigade - posted in Complementarity, Joyce, Language, Light and Dark, Light through, NAEB, Nihilism, Skornia
• Richard Hughes on media and the senses - posted in Acoustic space, Gutenberg Galaxy, Havelock, Language, Richards, Senses
• McLuhan and Father R.C. Williams - posted in Light through, McLuhan's Catholicism, NAEB, St Louis
• Chemistry of the interior landscape - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Chemistry, Figure/Ground, Language, Light through, NAEB, Ontological/ontic, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Science, Skornia, Time and times
• McLuhan and Skornia 1957 and 1958 - posted in Biography, NAEB, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Skornia
• NAEB seminar December 1957 - posted in Biography, NAEB, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Skornia
• First contact with the NAEB - posted in Biography, Light through, NAEB, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Skornia
• McLuhan on phenomenology in LOM - posted in Centre and Margin, Figure/Ground, Full range, Heidegger, Language, Laws of Media, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Percept/concept, Time and times
• McLuhan on phenomenology in 1978 - posted in Centre and Margin, Communication, Complementarity, Dialogue, Figure/Ground, Heidegger, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, The main question, Time and times

March 2020

• McLuhan in Nova Scotia - posted in Biography, Chesterton, Elsie
• The McLuhans move to Winnipeg - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Biography, Elsie, State of the world
• Herb McLuhan in Maclean's - posted in Biography, Joyce, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, State of the world, The main question, Winnipeg School of Communications
• How communicate the presupposition to communication? - posted in Aquinas, Aristotle, Beginnings, thresholds, Chesterton, Complementarity, Dialogue, Effects before causes, Eliot, Fly and Flybottle, Gap, Language, McLuhan's Catholicism, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Time and times
• Shaw & the hurdles of communication - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Centre and Margin, Coleridge, Elsie, Exploring ignorance, Gap, Innis, Jung, Lodge, Making and Matching, Plato, Shaw, Time and times, Wright
• McKeon, Gilson and Rorty - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Biography, Gilson, Language, Laws of Media, McLuhan's Catholicism, Science, Second Conversion

February 2020

• McLuhan and George Bernard Shaw - posted in Biography, Full range, Winnipeg School of Communications
• McLuhan, Hayakawa and Allison - posted in Biography, Hayakawa, Language, Winnipeg School of Communications
• McKeon’s 1935 Trivium essay 2 (the trivial debate) - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Bias of Communication, Figure/Ground, Gilson, Language, Laws of Media, Nashe thesis, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Preference, privilege
• McKeon's 1935 Trivium essay 1 (what is philosophy?) - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Beginnings, thresholds, Biography, Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters, Figure/Ground, Gilson, Lodge, McLuhan's Catholicism, Muller-Thym, Nashe thesis, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Phelan, Science, St Louis, St Michael's

January 2020

• Eisenstein 5 (the time of 'epoch') - posted in Eisenstein, Film, Full range, Gap, Inclusive Exclusive, Language, Original complexity, Time and times
• Epoch: Dostoevsky - posted in Exploring ignorance, Gigantomachia, Maelstrom, Poe, State of the world, Time and times
• McLuhan to Innis 1951 (3) - posted in Aquinas, Aristotle, Effects before causes, Eliot, Innis, Joyce, Language, Mallarmé, Nobody, Pound, Yeats
• Eisenstein 4 (1951) - posted in Eisenstein, Giedion, Innis, Making and Matching, Mechanical Bride, Pound, Single and Double Perspective
• Eisenstein 3 (Balázs) - posted in Acoustic space, Effects before causes, Eisenstein, Explorations, Film, Giedion, Music, Winnipeg School of Communications
• Eisenstein 2 (Zavattini) - posted in Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters, Communication, Eisenstein, Film, Incarnation, Making and Matching, McLuhan's Catholicism, Plato
• Eisenstein 1 - posted in Biography, Effects before causes, Eisenstein, Eliot, Exploring ignorance, Joyce, Katabasis, Mallarmé, Pound
• Bridges of spiritual and mental states - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Beginnings, thresholds, Bias of Communication, Centre and Margin, Complementarity, Explorations, Figure/Ground, Full range, Joyce, Laws of Media, Original complexity, Relativity and Topology, Science
• Early McLuhan on film - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Biography, Communication, Effects before causes, Eisenstein, Film
• Beyond the cultural monad - posted in Communication, Exploring ignorance, Plato, State of the world, The main question
• Analog and digital times - posted in Asia, Gap, Original complexity, Single and Double Perspective, The main question, Time and times

December 2019

• Culture Without Literacy - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Common sense, Communication, Explorations, Giedion, Language, Predicting the present, Relativity and Topology, Science, Single and Double Perspective, State of the world, Time and times
• The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 6 - posted in Biography, Gutenberg Galaxy, The main question, Time and times
• 'A Federal Offense!' - posted in Bias of Communication, Biography, Giedion, State of the world
• The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 5 - posted in Biography, Gutenberg Galaxy
• "Canadians" as McLuhan mirror - posted in Biography, Gutenberg Galaxy, Incarnation, Lewis
• Bacon in McLuhan 8 (Induction = Metaphor) - posted in Bacon, Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters, Gap, Incarnation, McLuhan's Catholicism, Science, The main question
• Lewis in McLuhan 3 (‘Nihilism Exposed’) - posted in Bacon, Gigantomachia, Gnosticism, Language, Lewis, Light and Dark, Lodge, Nihilism, Plato, State of the world, The main question
• Bacon in McLuhan 7 (Lewis 2) - posted in Bacon, Beginnings, thresholds, Centre and Margin, Complementarity, Dialogue, Exploring ignorance, Gutenberg Galaxy, Incarnation, Language, Lewis, Merger, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Science, Second Conversion, Senses, Tactility, The main question
• Lewis in McLuhan 1 ('Lemuel in Lilliput') - posted in Biography, Centre and Margin, Language, Lewis, Maritain, Predicting the present, Propaganda, State of the world, The impersonal, The main question

November 2019

• Wakese 4: Swift's engine of communicativeness - posted in Bacon, Joyce, Language
• Hayakawa and Alfred Korzybski - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Biography, Education, Great Books, Hayakawa
• Bacon in McLuhan 6 ('Medieval Grammar as the Basis of Bacon's Novum Organum') - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Bacon, Full range, Language, Science
• Bacon in McLuhan 5 ('Francis Bacon, Ancient or Modern?') - posted in Bacon, Gap, Gutenberg Galaxy, Katabasis, Language, Nashe thesis, Original complexity, Plato, Science, Time and times
• Bacon in McLuhan 4 ('Printing and Social Change') - posted in Bacon, Language, Nihilism, Science, Senses
• Bacon in McLuhan 3 (Gutenberg Galaxy) - posted in Bacon, Complementarity, Dialogue, Full range, Gutenberg Galaxy, Language, Original complexity, Science, Time and times
• The gigantomachia in GG from Rabelais - posted in Gigantomachia
• Bacon in McLuhan 2 ('Bacon's Patristic Inheritance') - posted in Bacon, Gilson, Language, Nashe thesis, Science, State of the world
• Bacon in McLuhan 1 (Nashe thesis) - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Bacon, Communication, Gilson, Language, Nashe thesis, Science
• Stewart Robb - posted in Biography, Music, Shakespeare, Winnipeg School of Communications

October 2019

• The essential plurality of the forms of being - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Full range, Gigantomachia, Inclusive Exclusive, Lodge, Nashe thesis, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Plato, Single and Double Perspective, The main question, Winnipeg School of Communications
• Verlinde and the aversion to philosophy - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Beginnings, thresholds, Complementarity, Fly and Flybottle, Lodge, Nihilism, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Physics, Relativity and Topology, Science, The main question, Time and times
• Verlinde: Physics in the Information Age - posted in Bohm, Einstein, Heisenberg, Laws of Media, Original complexity, Physics, Relativity and Topology, Science, The main question, Time and times

September 2019

• Quantum communications (the implications of essential plurality) - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Language, Lodge, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Physics, Science, Time and times, Wright
• On nisus - posted in Biography, Language, Lodge, Nevitt, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Time and times, Winnipeg School of Communications
• Vertical and horizontal times in Saussure and Nevitt - posted in Language, Nevitt, Original complexity, Time and times
• S.D. Neill on Innis and McLuhan - posted in Biography, Innis, Mechanical Bride
• Gigantomachia, triangular duel, siamese triplets - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Eliot, Full range, Gigantomachia, Lodge, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Physics, Plato, The main question
• Taking Lodge to Cambridge and beyond - posted in Education, Lodge
• McLuhan and Lodge ('Philosophy and Education') - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Biography, Elsie, Great Books, Lodge, Original complexity, The main question
• Lloyd Wheeler - posted in Biography, Winnipeg School of Communications

August 2019

• Bradbrook's School of Night and the dynamics of experience - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Bradbrook, Gigantomachia, Gilson, Lodge, Nashe thesis, Original complexity
• "Food for the mind is like food for the body" - posted in Biography, Bradbrook, Making and Matching, Nashe thesis, Original complexity, Percept/concept, Take Today
• Aesthetic Pattern (singular) in Keats’ Odes - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Bradbrook, Figure/Ground, Interior Landscape, Nashe thesis, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Science
• Lodge in Dalhousie Review - posted in Biography, Chesterton, Lodge, Phelan
• McLuhan's 1963 Dalhousie book review - posted in Maritain
• The Keats essay from 1943 - posted in Elsie, Figure/Ground, Full range, Gap, Original complexity, Science, Tactility
• McLuhan on "dichotomizing" in 1944 - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Beginnings, thresholds, Exploring ignorance, Full range, Laws of Media, Science, The main question
• Lévi-Strauss on method in anthropology - posted in Full range, Ontological/ontic, Single and Double Perspective, The impersonal, Time and times, Yeats
• Heine on 'Plato' and 'Aristotle' - posted in Aristotle, Beginnings, thresholds, Jung, Plato, Science, Shakespeare
• McLuhan's course books - posted in Biography, Education

July 2019

• "If it can be done, it must be done." - posted in Predicting the present, State of the world
• Jung on Schiller 2 - posted in Full range, Jung, Original complexity, Relativity and Topology, Schiller, Science
• Jung on Schiller 1 - posted in Exploring ignorance, Jung, Original complexity, Schiller, Science
• The "new level" of art - posted in Biography, Painting
• Jung's drame intérieur - posted in Eliot, Jung, Yeats

June 2019

• Reading Schiller (and others) - posted in Schiller, Science, Voegelin
• The Toronto school and Schiller - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Complementarity, Gigantomachia, Lodge, Original complexity, Richards, Schiller
• Lodge, Richards and Schiller's Aesthetic Letters - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Complementarity, Dialogue, Education, Language, Lodge, Making and Matching, Original complexity, Schiller, Winnipeg School of Communications
• Schiller's Aesthetic Letters and nihilism - posted in Nihilism, Nobody, Schiller, State of the world
• The times of science - posted in Science, Time and times, Voegelin

May 2019

• Breakthrough insight at "the level of essence" - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Figure/Ground, Laws of Media, Lodge, Percept/concept, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Science, Time and times, Voegelin
• Voegelin and the question of "intelligible units" - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Biography, Predicting the present, State of the world, Voegelin
• Lodge and Wright in Faces of Reason - posted in Lodge, Winnipeg School of Communications, Wright

April 2019

• Communications Programme at UBC - posted in Biography, Report on Project in Understanding New Media
• The medium is the message in 1958 - posted in Medium, NAEB, Predicting the present, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, State of the world
• McLuhan and Voegelin 1953 - posted in Predicting the present, Science, State of the world, Voegelin
• Irish Bull - posted in Biography, Lodge, Take Today
• Ransom to Tate and Guerry on McLuhan - posted in Biography, Brooks, Interior Landscape
• Planet as art-form before the satellite - posted in Fly and Flybottle
• Past the vanishing point - posted in Biography, Bradbrook, Exploring ignorance, Katabasis, Light and Dark, Nashe thesis, Shakespeare
• "Ancient quarrel" in Lewis - posted in Language
• "Ancient quarrel" and its synonyms (1950's) - posted in Language

March 2019

• "Ancient quarrel" and its synonyms (1940's) - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Beginnings, thresholds, Full range, Lodge, Nashe thesis, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity
• Review of Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism - posted in Friends, Jung, Science, Skornia, St Michael's
• Lewis citing Hutton's Aretino on calumny - posted in Lewis, Predicting the present, State of the world
• Statement by Pound signed by McLuhan - posted in Pound
• Lewis on the fate of the West - posted in Lewis, Relativity and Topology, State of the world
• Reversal 1 - posted in Centre and Margin, Complementarity, Incarnation, Lewis, Nobody, The impersonal
• On The Mechanical Bride - posted in Mechanical Bride
• Media definition - posted in Acoustic space, Fly and Flybottle, Medium, NAEB, Science, Skornia, Time and times
• Unlocking the Airwaves - posted in NAEB, Report on Project in Understanding New Media

February 2019

• Planet polluto, garbage apocalypse - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Fly and Flybottle, Havelock, Innis, Original complexity, Predicting the present, State of the world
• The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 4 - posted in Biography, Gutenberg Galaxy, Report on Project in Understanding New Media
• Wakese 3: "A word is a single shot of a process" - posted in Joyce, Katabasis, Language, NAEB, Time and times
• The subjugation of the human spirit - posted in Predicting the present, Propaganda, State of the world, The main question
• Wakese 2: McLuhan on the "potencies" of language - posted in Aristotle, Communication, Dynamics, Effects before causes, Joyce, Language, Making and Matching, Original complexity, Plato
• Lodge in W.O. Mitchell's Who Has Seen the Wind - posted in Language, Lodge, McLuhan's Catholicism, Mitchell, Plato, Time and times, Water

January 2019

• McLuhan vs Richards, Transformation vs Transportation - posted in Communication, Richards
• 3 forms of Being in Havelock's Crucifixion - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Havelock, Original complexity, Science
• Richards' existential demand - posted in Bias of Communication, Coleridge, Exploring ignorance, Language, Richards
• On the "necessary conjoint" of Platonists and Aristotelians - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Biography, Coleridge, Complementarity, Dialogue, Language, Lodge, McLuhan's Catholicism, Original complexity, Richards

December 2018

• Wakese 1: On the quintessential extraction of language - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Effects before causes, Exploring ignorance, Joyce, Language, Light and Dark
• Bohm on times - posted in Physics, Time and times
• Heisenberg on possibility - posted in Aristotle, Bohm, Muller-Thym, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Phelan, Physics
• Heisenberg on 'an ancient quarrel' - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Aristotle, Dialogue, Gigantomachia, Heisenberg, Nashe thesis, Physics, State of the world
• Ontology and physics - posted in Aristotle, Bohm, Complementarity, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Physics, Riezler

November 2018

• Bohm and Hiley on "active information" - posted in Bohm, Ontological/ontic, Percept/concept, Physics, Wiener
• Riezler on possibility - posted in Aristotle, Bohm, Dialogue, Gap, Incarnation, Language, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Physics, Riezler
• Riezler on ontology - posted in Aristotle, Bohm, Dialogue, Language, Nihilism, Ontological/ontic, Physics, Riezler
• Riezler on the situation of the world - posted in Aristotle, Bohm, Nihilism, Physics, Riezler, State of the world
• Bohm on "the wrong turn" - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Bohm, Havelock, Innis, Physics, Time and times, Transcriptions of the Atomic Table
• McLuhan Bohm jigsaw pieces - posted in Bohm, Giedion, Lodge, Physics, Science

October 2018

• Bohm on the spacetimes of consciousness - posted in Bohm, Figure/Ground, Katabasis, Nihilism, Physics, Single and Double Perspective, Time and times

September 2018

• Bohm on the ratio of ratios - posted in Bohm, Dialogue, Original complexity, Physics, Relativity and Topology, Single and Double Perspective
• Bohm on making and matching - posted in Bohm, Making and Matching, Physics, Relativity and Topology
• McLuhan interview on The City as Classroom - posted in Dialogue, Education
• Bohm on percept and concept - posted in Bohm, Percept/concept, Physics, Relativity and Topology
• Bohm on formal cause - posted in Bohm, Physics, Relativity and Topology

July 2018

• Verbi-Voco-Visual note on the chemistry of experience - posted in Cybernetics, Dynamics, Explorations, Laws of Media, Science

June 2018

• Poetry as circuit control - posted in Eliot, Explorations, Joyce, Language, Mallarmé, Physics, Pound, Wiener
• Charles Cochrane and "problems of time" - posted in Innis, Time and times
• Lindberg before and after Foundations - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Centre and Margin, Complementarity, Full range, Predicting the present, Preference, privilege
• Cochrane on "an all-pervasive change in outlook" in Athens - posted in Alphabet, Havelock, Innis

May 2018

• John Lindberg - posted in Exploring ignorance, Gnosticism, Language, McLuhan's Catholicism, Mythology, Science, Wright
• "Perpetuity of collective harmony" as judo - posted in Gnosticism, Language, Merger, Original complexity, Time and times, Understanding Media
• Heinrich Wölfflin and the laws of media - posted in Effects before causes, Giedion, Laws of Media, Painting, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Science
• Winnipeg Free Press obituary of R.C. Lodge - posted in Lodge, Winnipeg School of Communications
• McLuhan on first meeting Innis - posted in Biography, Drucker, Easterbrook, Full range, Havelock, Innis, Mallarmé, Muller-Thym, Richards, St Michael's
• Rupert Lodge: Synthesis or Comparison? - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Beginnings, thresholds, Figure/Ground, Full range, Gap, Gigantomachia, Innis, Lodge, Merger, Nihilism, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity
• McLuhan on 'effect' in 1946 - posted in Biography, Effects before causes, Leavis, Mallarmé, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Time and times

April 2018

• What Havelock knew in 1938 - posted in Bias of Communication, Havelock, Innis, Laws of Media, Time and times

March 2018

• Dialogue and ethics - posted in Centre and Margin, Complementarity, Figure/Ground, Merger, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Predicting the present, Single and Double Perspective
• William H. Allen - posted in Report on Project in Understanding New Media
• "Factual means of avoiding disaster" - posted in Eliot, Empson, Leavis, Richards
• Project 69: What I Learned On The Project - posted in Effects before causes, Exploring ignorance, Gap, Predicting the present, Propaganda, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Senses
• Kenneth Boulding - posted in Language
• McLuhan's #1 breakthrough - posted in Centre and Margin, Muller-Thym, NAEB, Relativity and Topology, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Science, Skornia, Tactility, Take Today
• Richard L Meier and "substitutability" - posted in Complementarity, Original complexity, Report on Project in Understanding New Media
• Project 69: Purpose of Project - posted in Laws of Media, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Science
• Georg von Békésy - posted in Acoustic space, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Tactility

February 2018

• Multi-levels of simultaneous presentation - posted in Eliot, Katabasis, Language, Light and Dark, Single and Double Perspective, Time and times, Water
• Tobias Dantzig - posted in Alphabet, Bias of Communication, Gutenberg Galaxy, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Science
• Ernst Gombrich - posted in Common sense, Figure/Ground, Gutenberg Galaxy, Making and Matching, Painting, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Senses, Tactility
• William Ivins - posted in Bias of Communication, Full range, Relativity and Topology, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Science, Senses
• Heinrich Wölfflin - posted in Giedion, Original complexity, Relativity and Topology, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Senses
• Adolf Hildebrand - posted in Complementarity, Laws of Media, Painting, Science, Senses
• Grant on Innis and Cochrane - posted in Innis
• Not a mode of being but a mode of processing - posted in Predicting the present
• The American dream - posted in Predicting the present
• Universal abdication of human motive - posted in Pound, Predicting the present

January 2018

• McLuhan to Serge Chermayeff - posted in Centre and Margin
• McLuhan's new sciences: "only the authority of knowledge" - posted in Bias of Communication, Common sense, Havelock, Language, Muller-Thym, Science, The impersonal
• Havelock, McLuhan & the history of education - posted in Education, Havelock, Language, Single and Double Perspective
• The keyboards of existence - posted in Full range, Joyce, Katabasis, Maelstrom, Original complexity, Poe, Transcriptions of the Atomic Table

December 2017

• McLuhan reading Havelock's Crucifixion - posted in Gnosticism, Havelock
• How it is - posted in Complementarity, Innis, Predicting the present, Science
• Human being: navigator between worlds - posted in Empson, Gap, Katabasis, Language, Light and Dark, Maelstrom
• Virtual coinage - posted in Nihilism, Predicting the present
• The world too much with us - posted in Nihilism, Nobody, Predicting the present, Propaganda, The impersonal
• Present depicted 60 years ago - posted in Merger, Predicting the present, The impersonal
• Eliot on Scylla and Charybdis - posted in Eliot, Giovanelli, Jung, Katabasis, Language, Lewis, Mythology, Pound, The impersonal
• Scylla and Charybdis 1 - posted in Katabasis, Maelstrom, Winnipeg School of Communications
• Blackout - posted in Bradbrook, Exploring ignorance, Gap, Katabasis, Light and Dark, Shakespeare, Single and Double Perspective
• What is the present? - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Exploring ignorance, Katabasis, Language, Lewis, Maelstrom, Time and times
• Jung - posted in Jung, Katabasis, Language, Mythology
• Archetypes as inherently plural - posted in Full range, Giedion, Jung, Katabasis, Original complexity
• X-ray awareness, the inside story - posted in Full range, Katabasis, Language, Maelstrom, Percept/concept, Time and times
• Vatican Council as politics and business - posted in McLuhan's Catholicism, State of the world
• Vivisection - posted in Giedion, Havelock, Innis, Joyce, Katabasis, Maelstrom, Mallarmé
• The spectrum of forms - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Beginnings, thresholds, Gap, Light and Dark, Mallarmé, Original complexity, Science, Transcriptions of the Atomic Table, Wiener, Winnipeg School of Communications

November 2017

• 2017 foreseen in 1965 - posted in Predicting the present, Science, Winnipeg School of Communications
• When is 'before'? - posted in Bias of Communication, Centre and Margin, Complementarity, Effects before causes, Single and Double Perspective, Time and times
• Knowing effects before they occur - posted in Biography, Effects before causes, Katabasis, Original complexity, Science, Time and times, Winnipeg School of Communications
• Déjà vu - posted in Effects before causes, Exploring ignorance, Joyce, Plato
• The sensory thresholds of our being - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Bias of Communication, Exploring ignorance, Science
• Marchand on McLuhan on the Maelstrom - posted in Centre and Margin, Katabasis, Maelstrom, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Ontological/ontic, Poe
• Effects before causes - posted in Effects before causes, Gilson, Nihilism, Plato, Science
• The incomprehensible mechanism - posted in Exploring ignorance, Gap, Katabasis, Maelstrom, McLuhan's Catholicism, Nobody, Poe
• The humble ditch - posted in Gap, Painting, Water
• The family predicament - posted in Biography, McLuhan's Catholicism, Predicting the present
• Lionizing and de-lionizing McLuhan - posted in Biography, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Predicting the present, Propaganda
• Percepts of existence - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Gigantomachia, Original complexity, Transcriptions of the Atomic Table
• A sense of reality - posted in Nihilism, Nobody, Ontological/ontic, Predicting the present
• The Maelstrom in Mallarmé's Coup de Dés - posted in Brooks, Gilson, Katabasis, Language, Maelstrom, Mallarmé, Nobody, Poe, St Louis
• Effect before cause in Gilson - posted in Bias of Communication, Brooks, Effects before causes, Eliot, Gilson, Incarnation, Joyce, Katabasis, Language, Maelstrom, Making and Matching, McLuhan's Catholicism, Muller-Thym, Plato, Relativity and Topology, Second Conversion, The main question

October 2017

• Easterbrook in Toronto - posted in Biography, Easterbrook, Winnipeg School of Communications
• Echoes of Joyce - posted in John Watson, Joyce, McLuhan's Catholicism, Second Conversion
• The very citadel of civilized awareness - posted in Innis, Pound, Science, Second Conversion, Wiener
• John Watson's heritage in political economics and communications - posted in John Watson, Lodge, Ontological/ontic, Relativity and Topology, St Michael's, Water, Wright
• Henry Carr - posted in Gilson, Maritain, McLuhan's Catholicism
• Bellum-Pax-Bellum - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Eliot, Havelock, Innis, Joyce, Katabasis, Maelstrom, Poe, Science, Time and times
• The bubble of life in Joyce's Portrait - posted in Joyce, Nihilism, Nobody
• Voices in Dubliners and A Portrait - posted in Elsie, Joyce, Language
• Occultation of human thought - posted in Nihilism, Pound, Predicting the present
• The Gorgon - posted in Gigantomachia, Menippean satire, Mythology, Nihilism, Predicting the present, Propaganda
• Monstrosity - posted in Gigantomachia, Merger, Original complexity, Predicting the present, Take Today

September 2017

• From the unconscious to the conscious to consciousness of the unconscious - posted in Laws of Media, Original complexity, Science, Single and Double Perspective, Time and times, Transcriptions of the Atomic Table
• Espionage as the total human activity - posted in Predicting the present
• The hijacked world - posted in Predicting the present
• The show biz world - posted in Predicting the present
• The New Criticism and plural times - posted in Biography, Language, Richards, Time and times

August 2017

• Predicting the present 65 years ago - posted in Predicting the present
• McLuhan on 2017 in 1970 - posted in Predicting the present
• Carpenter on McLuhan's poetic conversation - posted in Biography, Carpenter, Communication, Dialogue, State of the world
• The question of the "objective correlative" - posted in Complementarity, Einstein, Eliot, Language, Relativity and Topology, Science
• Patterson: "no interest in biases of space and time" - posted in Mis-Taking McLuhan
• McLuhan to Overduin on water and fish - posted in Water
• William James on the "free water of consciousness" - posted in Water
• Language and experience - posted in Language, Science, Time and times
• Dagwood and the ineradicable roots of our being - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Complementarity, Full range, Gigantomachia, Inclusive Exclusive, Jung, Maelstrom, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Science, Single and Double Perspective, St Louis, Time and times

July 2017

• Patterson on McLuhan's acquaintance with Innis - posted in Biography, Innis
• Easterbrook to Innis on the "juxtaposition of unlikes" - posted in Complementarity, Innis, Science, Winnipeg School of Communications
• McLuhan's realism 10: Pound on the ideograph - posted in Alphabet, Asia, Complementarity, Original complexity, Pound, Science
• Writing and the Alphabet in Innis and McLuhan - posted in Alphabet, Asia, Complementarity, Incarnation, Innis, McLuhan's Catholicism, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Second Conversion, Single and Double Perspective, The main question, Time and times
• McLuhan's times - posted in Innis, Original complexity, Relativity and Topology, Shakespeare, Time and times
• McLuhan and the "ceaseless quest for the inclusive image" - posted in Acoustic space, Complementarity, Incarnation, Inclusive Exclusive, McLuhan's Catholicism, Original complexity, The main question, Time and times
• McLuhan's Google Doodle - posted in Biography, Winnipeg School of Communications
• On Lewis and Technology 1944 - posted in Full range, Giedion, Lewis, McLuhan's Catholicism, St Louis
• The Comparative Method of Rupert Lodge - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Biography, Innis, Lodge, McLuhan's Catholicism, Winnipeg School of Communications, Wright
• McNaspy remembers McLuhan - posted in Biography, Muller-Thym, Music, St Louis
• McLuhan’s realism 9: Where Chesterton Comes In - posted in Biography, Chesterton, Common sense, Full range, Gigantomachia, Gilson, McLuhan's Catholicism
• McLuhan’s realism 8: Chesterton as practical mystic - posted in Chesterton, Incarnation, Nihilism
• Encountering Poe - posted in Biography, Maelstrom, Poe, Winnipeg School of Communications
• Remembering Edmonton very vividly - posted in Biography, Winnipeg School of Communications
• Kaye Rowe's "Intimate look at Marshall McLuhan" - posted in Eliot, Maritain, St Louis, Winnipeg School of Communications
• McLuhan’s realism 7: "training in moral sensibility" - posted in Bias of Communication, Complementarity, Full range, Gigantomachia, Great Books, Hegel, Incarnation, Lodge, St Louis, Winnipeg School of Communications, Wright
• McLuhan: 'The Global Lewis' - posted in Giovanelli, Lewis, St Louis
• Lewis in 1943: "The Frontiers of Art or the Cultural Melting Pot" - posted in Lewis, Nihilism, St Louis
• McLuhan’s realism 6: dialectics and erudition not enough - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Brooks, Full range, Gigantomachia, Great Books, Preference, privilege
• Nef on McLuhan's proposal - posted in Complementarity, Giedion, Great Books, Innis, Nihilism, Ontological/ontic
• The brother's tale - posted in Exploring ignorance, Katabasis, Maelstrom, Nihilism, Poe, Water

June 2017

• Proposal to Robert Hutchins 1947 - posted in Bias of Communication, Brooks, Communication, Dialogue, Education, Full range, Giedion, Great Books, Language, State of the world, Vico
• Ms. Found In A Bottle - Edgar Poe - posted in Katabasis, Maelstrom
• McLuhan’s realism 5: Cambridge 1934-1935 - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Biography, Chesterton, Full range, Lodge, Maritain, McLuhan's Catholicism, Ontological/ontic, Plato, The main question, Winnipeg School of Communications
• McLuhan’s realism 4: Meredith and "mystical materialism" - posted in Biography, McLuhan's Catholicism, Percept/concept, Richards, Winnipeg School of Communications
• McLuhan's realism 3: against perceptual engineering - posted in Exploring ignorance, Incarnation, Making and Matching, The main question
• McLuhan's realism 2: "the real things, exactly as they are" - posted in Complementarity, Exploring ignorance, Incarnation, Language, McLuhan's Catholicism, Ontological/ontic, The main question
• McLuhan's realism 1: St Louis 1940 - posted in Common sense, Language, Making and Matching, Muller-Thym, Music, Ong, Plato, Second Conversion, St Louis
• Havelock and the question of 'water' - posted in Einstein, Havelock, Plato, Relativity and Topology, Water
• "The formula of Virgil's poetic chemistry" - posted in Centre and Margin, Epyllion, Exploring ignorance, Full range, Havelock, Katabasis, Language, Nobody, Plato

May 2017

• McLuhan and Plato 15: Poe's Maelstrom and the Phaedo - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Exploring ignorance, Havelock, Katabasis, Maelstrom, Plato, Time and times, Water
• Lodge on 'Science and Literature' - posted in Lodge, Mitchell, Take Today, Winnipeg School of Communications
• Innis and "the conditions of freedom of thought" - posted in Communication, Dialogue, Innis, Nihilism, Science
• "Great change" in Descent into the Maelstrom - posted in Katabasis, Maelstrom
• The bubble of life in Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Havelock and Innis - posted in Centre and Margin, Exploring ignorance, Havelock, Innis, Nihilism, Time and times
• A Descent into the Maelstrom - Edgar Poe - posted in Katabasis, Maelstrom
• Vortex atoms in 19th century physics - posted in Katabasis, Lewis, Maelstrom, Original complexity, Poe, Pound, Science, Survival, Water
• Giedion on simultaneity - posted in Eliot, Giedion, Time and times
• Giedion to Nef: "a young scholar of English literature" - posted in Giedion, Great Books
• Speaking of Winnipeg - "a vast sense of space and time" - posted in Biography, Winnipeg School of Communications

April 2017

• McLuhan and Beckett: Through the vanishing point by way of neither - posted in Exploring ignorance, Katabasis, Light and Dark, Maelstrom, Nihilism
• Autobiography - beginning to teach in 1936 - posted in Biography, Language, Richards

March 2017

• Preface to Eric Havelock and the Toronto School - posted in Havelock, Innis
• Innis, McLuhan and "the "power of metamorphosis" - posted in Bias of Communication, Complementarity, Exploring ignorance, Havelock, Innis, Language, Nihilism, Plato, The main question
• The "magical" essence of communication - posted in Aquinas, Aristotle, Bias of Communication, Exploring ignorance, Innis, Language, State of the world

February 2017

• The Toronto school and 3 Plato books - posted in Havelock, Innis, Plato

January 2017

• Reuel Denney - posted in Alphabet, Language, Plato
• What nobody knows - posted in Acoustic space, Full range, Language, Nobody, Plato, Wright
• I.A. Richards on Eric Havelock - posted in Acoustic space, Epyllion, Havelock, Language, Richards
• Body percept 2 - posted in Beginnings, thresholds, Drucker, Dynamics, The impersonal, Through the Vanishing Point
• On the frontier everybody is a nobody - posted in Eliot, Exploring ignorance, Full range, Katabasis, Light and Dark, Nihilism, Nobody, Plato
• Tradition and the Individual Talent - posted in Acoustic space, Eliot, Inclusive Exclusive, Percept/concept, Single and Double Perspective

December 2016

• "Body percept" - identity, space and time - posted in Eliot, Exploring ignorance, Full range, Katabasis, Language, Maelstrom, Original complexity
• Theuth in Plato's Philebus - posted in Incarnation, Innis, Language, Plato, Water

October 2016

• Parry and Lord in McLuhan - posted in Acoustic space, Alphabet, Bias of Communication, Havelock, Innis, Plato
• The Journey of Aeneas through the Waste Land - posted in Eliot, Epyllion, Havelock, Joyce, Katabasis, Original complexity, Time and times, Water
• Abcedmindedness - posted in Exploring ignorance, Joyce, Katabasis, The main question
• The "Vacuum of the Self", the "Abced-minded" - posted in Alphabet, Centre and Margin, Exploring ignorance, Inclusive Exclusive, Language, Single and Double Perspective, The main question
• Encountering Maritain in 1934 - posted in Biography, Maritain, McLuhan's Catholicism, Phelan, Time and times
• McLuhan and Father Gerald Phelan 1934-1936 - posted in Chesterton, Elsie, McLuhan's Catholicism, Phelan

September 2016

• Innis and McLuhan in 1936 - posted in Chesterton, Havelock, Innis, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Phelan
• The vacuum tube, "the ballet of electrons" - posted in Explorations, Full range, Joyce, Language, Science, Wiener
• The "Vacuum of the Self" - posted in Exploring ignorance, Nihilism, Ontological/ontic
• Wiener on the Vacuum Tube - posted in Wiener
• Menippean satire 4 - posted in Menippean satire

August 2016

• Stamps on Havelock and McLuhan - posted in Havelock
• Goody on Havelock, Innis and McLuhan - posted in Havelock, Innis
• The gigantomachia in Dostoevsky - posted in Gigantomachia
• Theall on Innis, Havelock and McLuhan - posted in Havelock, Innis, Relativity and Topology
• The question of unity - posted in Acoustic space, Explorations, Giedion, Language, McLuhan's Catholicism
• Pre-Christian Logos - posted in Language, McLuhan's Catholicism, Plato
• Ted Carpenter on discovering ‘auditory space’ - posted in Acoustic space, Biography, Complementarity, Explorations, Film, Full range, Gnosticism, Light and Dark, Original complexity, Winnipeg School of Communications

July 2016

• McLuhan & Williams on discovering 'auditory space' - posted in Acoustic space, Biography, Explorations, Giedion
• Relativity in Space, Time & Architecture - posted in Full range, Giedion, Relativity and Topology, Science
• Space, Time & Architecture and McLuhan - posted in Centre and Margin, Giedion, Original complexity
• The dateline 1 - posted in Laws of Media, Music, Original complexity, Science, Time and times
• Relativity in Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters - posted in Bias of Communication, Einstein, Full range, Joyce, McLuhan's Catholicism, Relativity and Topology, Science
• Autobiography 1956: "Huge shift in the geography of perception and feeling" - posted in Biography, Complementarity, Einstein, Full range, Music, Relativity and Topology, Science
• Ontology and epistemology - posted in Centre and Margin, Complementarity, Einstein, Incarnation, Muller-Thym, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity
• Analogy of proper proportionality - posted in Complementarity, Einstein, Full range, Light and Dark, McLuhan's Catholicism, Muller-Thym, Original complexity, Preference, privilege, Relativity and Topology, Science
• Giedion - an "Author's Note" - posted in Giedion, Science, State of the world, The impersonal

June 2016

• Minkowski in Giedion - posted in Einstein, Giedion, Original complexity, Relativity and Topology, Science, Time and times
• "New Media Changing Spatial Orientation Of Self" - posted in Einstein, Explorations, Relativity and Topology, Science
• Explorations and Epilogue - posted in Explorations, Time and times
• Different kinds of "acoustic space" - posted in Full range, Giedion, Laws of Media, Science
• Einstein - posted in Alice, Complementarity, Einstein, Full range, Muller-Thym, Ontological/ontic, Original complexity, Physics, Relativity and Topology, Science, Second Conversion
• Relativity in The Mechanical Bride - posted in Centre and Margin, Full range, Giedion, Relativity and Topology, Science
• Field theory - posted in Full range, Preference, privilege, Relativity and Topology, Science
• The mosaic in A Faculty of Interrelations - posted in Complementarity, Giedion, Original complexity, Science
• Schafer -- The Tuning of the World - posted in Biography, Friends, Giedion, Music, Nihilism, Science
• Sigfried Giedion -- A Faculty of Interrelations - posted in Complementarity, Giedion, Ontological/ontic, Relativity and Topology, The main question
• What is coherence? - posted in Biography, Complementarity, Eliot, Inclusive Exclusive, Innis, Language, McLuhan's Catholicism, Relativity and Topology, Science, Second Conversion, Single and Double Perspective, Time and times
• From vision to 'vision' - posted in Biography, Complementarity, Hayakawa, Language, Relativity and Topology, Second Conversion, Winnipeg School of Communications
• Hayakawa -- The Revision of Vision - posted in Biography, Giedion, Hayakawa, Relativity and Topology, Winnipeg School of Communications, Wright

May 2016

• Relativity and topology - posted in Biography, Complementarity, Einstein, Full range, Hayakawa, Language, Laws of Media, Muller-Thym, Relativity and Topology, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Second Conversion
• W.O. Mitchell on Rupert Lodge - posted in Biography, Lodge, Mitchell, Winnipeg School of Communications
• W.O. Mitchell and the quest to "embody insight" - posted in Biography, Elsie, Mitchell, Single and Double Perspective, Winnipeg School of Communications
• The put-on - posted in Biography, Centre and Margin, Elsie, Incarnation, Making and Matching, Ontological/ontic
• “The main question” in Valéry - posted in Biography, Centre and Margin, Complementarity, Hayakawa, Language, Light and Dark, The main question, Winnipeg School of Communications
• Henry Wright on Winnipeg in 1920 - posted in Biography, Lodge, Winnipeg School of Communications, Wright

April 2016

• Elsie McLuhan on the Mastery of Life - posted in Biography, Elsie, McLuhan's Catholicism, Ontological/ontic
• Lodge and Wright - posted in Lodge, Winnipeg School of Communications, Wright
• McLuhan vs the Walkathon in 1931 - posted in Biography, Exploring ignorance, Winnipeg School of Communications
• Teacher with a Heart of Steel - posted in Winnipeg School of Communications
• T.S. Eliot in Winnipeg - posted in Biography, Eliot, Winnipeg School of Communications

March 2016

• Preface to The Mechanical Bride: “provisional affairs for apprehending reality” - posted in Exploring ignorance, Light and Dark, Making and Matching, Menippean satire, Ontological/ontic, Propaganda, Science, Time and times

February 2016

• "The main question" in Dostoevsky - posted in Centre and Margin, Light and Dark, McLuhan's Catholicism, Single and Double Perspective, The main question
• Nihilism in Dostoevsky - posted in Nihilism
• Complexity or simplicity, theory or intuition? - posted in Nihilism, Original complexity
• McLuhan and Heinrich Hertz 1 - posted in Complementarity, Laws of Media, Lodge, Science

January 2016

• Deutsch on Christian complementarity - posted in Centre and Margin, Deutsch, McLuhan's Catholicism, Science
• Nihilism in Turgenev - posted in Nihilism
• The Maelstrom in Dostoevsky - posted in Maelstrom, Poe
• "Deutsch’s interesting pamphlet on communication" 1 - posted in Deutsch, Giedion, Muller-Thym

December 2015

• Jackson Knight on "the main question" - posted in Centre and Margin, Incarnation, Innis, Lewis, Light and Dark, Ontological/ontic, Second Conversion, The main question
• Eliot's 'From Poe to Valéry' - posted in Eliot, Katabasis, Maelstrom, McLuhan's Catholicism, Nihilism, Second Conversion
• Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Poe's Maelstrom - posted in Brooks, Katabasis, Maelstrom, Science, Time and times
• The Road to Xanadu - posted in Biography, Epyllion, Havelock, Katabasis, Maelstrom, Richards
• Autobiography - the experience of the second conversion - posted in Biography, Katabasis, Maelstrom, Yeats
• Autobiography - the experience of Cambridge - posted in Biography
• Golden on Innis and Havelock - posted in Havelock, Innis

November 2015

• Heyer on Innis and Havelock - posted in Havelock, Innis
• Carey on Innis and Havelock - posted in Havelock, Innis
• McLuhan's second conversion - posted in Biography, Epyllion, Katabasis, Maelstrom
• A "trick of analysis" in the Maelstrom - posted in Biography, Brooks, Katabasis, Light and Dark, Maelstrom, Nihilism, Propaganda
• McLuhan on Poe's Maelstrom - posted in Biography, Exploring ignorance, Katabasis, Maelstrom, Poe
• Innis to McLuhan February 26, 1951 - posted in Biography, Cybernetics, Deutsch, Giedion, Innis
• Cleanth Brooks on the Maelstrom - posted in Biography, Brooks, Katabasis, Maelstrom

October 2015

• Richards and Havelock before 1947 - posted in Epyllion, Havelock, Katabasis, Richards, Second Conversion
• Havelock on the interpretation of all epochs - posted in Exploring ignorance, Full range, Havelock
• Innis on the pulp and paper industry 1937 - posted in Havelock, Innis
• Havelock on the 'oral-literate equation' - posted in Full range, Havelock, Innis, Science
• Havelock's 'Professional Technique of the Sophists', 1940 - posted in Havelock
• Babe on Havelock, Innis and McLuhan - posted in Havelock, Innis
• Innis to McLuhan January 12, 1952 - posted in Innis, Time and times
• Sirluck on Innis, Owen and Havelock - posted in Havelock, Innis

September 2015

• Innis and Havelock - 1930 and beyond - posted in Alphabet, Beginnings, thresholds, Bias of Communication, Havelock, Innis, Medium, Single and Double Perspective
• Havelock to McLuhan, 1970, and its background - posted in Biography, Havelock, Innis

August 2015

• Havelock, Innis and Richards in 1947 - posted in Bias of Communication, Havelock, Innis, Plato, Richards
• Explorations - posted in Biography

July 2015

• McLuhan to Richards July 1968 - posted in Gigantomachia, Richards
• Richards on the media 5 - posted in Richards, Time and times
• Richards on the media 4 - posted in Bias of Communication, Richards
• Richards on the media 3 - posted in Richards
• Richards on the media 2 - posted in Richards
• Richards on the media 1 - posted in Bias of Communication, Richards
• Autobiography 1967 - posted in Biography
• Hopkins: peace allows the death of it - posted in Language, McLuhan's Catholicism, Nihilism, Richards
• Richards and McLuhan: essential differences - posted in Richards, Time and times
• Richards and McLuhan - The Windhover - posted in Incarnation, Language, McLuhan's Catholicism, Richards
• McLuhan's Topic #4: the secret songs that orchestrate the universe - posted in Ontological/ontic
• Richards - the trivium, the eddy and the 2 sides of the mirror - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Biography, Language, Richards
• Comparative philosophy - Masson-Oursel and Crookshank - posted in Biography, Eliot, Full range, Richards, Time and times

June 2015

• McLuhan's Topic #3 - Richards and ontology - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Full range, Inclusive Exclusive, Ontological/ontic, Plato, Richards
• McLuhan's Topic #2 - confronting nihilism - posted in Exploring ignorance, Nihilism
• McLuhan's Topic #1 - "the law of writ" - posted in Biography, Bradbrook, Shakespeare, Wright

May 2015

• Autobiography – encountering Alfred Adler - posted in Biography, Exploring ignorance
• Autobiography - encountering Shakespeare - posted in Biography, Shakespeare
• "Pouring [out] is also fulfillment, not emptying but filling" - posted in Centre and Margin, Exploring ignorance, Incarnation, Inclusive Exclusive, Light and Dark, McLuhan's Catholicism, Ontological/ontic, The main question, Time and times
• Autobiography – remembering St Louis 1937-1944 - posted in Biography, McLuhan's Catholicism

April 2015

• Autobiography – encountering Maritain - posted in Biography, McLuhan's Catholicism
• Key texts #2 -- SI/SC revisited as "cliché­-probes" - posted in Exploring ignorance, Full range, Language, Menippean satire
• Autobiography - McLuhan's place in Canada and in the arts - posted in Biography
• Autobiography - encountering Chesterton - posted in Biography
• Key texts #1 -- "physiological and psychological balance" - posted in Complementarity, Full range, Light and Dark, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Original complexity, Relativity and Topology

March 2015

• Autobiography 1930 - posted in Language
• Autobiography -- Richards and Empson - posted in Biography, Empson, Inclusive Exclusive, Richards
• Autobiography 1932-1934 - posted in Biography
• Autobiography 1944-1946 - posted in Biography, Lewis, Winnipeg School of Communications
• Autobiography 1934-1936 - posted in Biography
• The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 3 – Proof-reading in progress - posted in Biography, Gutenberg Galaxy
• Babel - posted in Centre and Margin, Exploring ignorance, Katabasis, Merger, Ontological/ontic, State of the world

February 2015

• Sense and senselessness 2 -- Wittgenstein on language and language learning - posted in Language
• Sense and senselessness 1 -- Some sense? - posted in Centre and Margin, Exploring ignorance, Language, McLuhan's Catholicism, Ontological/ontic, Preference, privilege

December 2014

• Subjective and objective genitive 2 - posted in Inclusive Exclusive, Joyce, McLuhan's Catholicism, Time and times

November 2014

• The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 2 - Carothers - posted in Alphabet, Biography, Full range, Gutenberg Galaxy, Muller-Thym, Relativity and Topology, Science
• Uttering, outering - posted in Full range, Inclusive Exclusive, Merger, Single and Double Perspective

October 2014

• McLuhan and Plato 1: strange prisoners like ourselves - posted in Incarnation, Light and Dark, Making and Matching, McLuhan's Catholicism, Ontological/ontic, Plato
• McLuhan and Plato 11- on the perception of the child (obj gen) - posted in Exploring ignorance, Incarnation, Ontological/ontic, Percept/concept, Plato, Single and Double Perspective, Time and times
• Subjective and objective genitive - posted in Language
• McLuhan and Plato 10 – on the child and the child's perception - posted in Alice, Exploring ignorance, Full range, Ontological/ontic, Percept/concept, Plato, Single and Double Perspective

September 2014

• McLuhan and Plato 9 – on the plain of oblivion - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Centre and Margin, Exploring ignorance, Ontological/ontic, Plato, Single and Double Perspective, Water
• Autobiography 1962 - posted in Biography, Effects before causes, Exploring ignorance, Gutenberg Galaxy, Nihilism, Shakespeare, The main question
• McLuhan and Plato 8 - Gigantomachia - posted in Gigantomachia, Ontological/ontic, Plato
• McLuhan and Plato 7 – "a poise between" - posted in Inclusive Exclusive, Innis, Ontological/ontic, Plato, Take Today, Time and times
• Ellul's Propaganda - posted in Propaganda
• McLuhan's biographical note for 'An Ancient Quarrel’ 1946 - posted in Biography, Winnipeg School of Communications

August 2014

• McLuhan and Plato 6 – Theuth - posted in Alphabet, Innis, Language, Plato
• McLuhan and Plato 5 - Peter Pan - posted in McLuhan's Catholicism, Plato
• McLuhan and Plato 4 – Narcissus - posted in Exploring ignorance, Full range, Language, Merger, Plato, Time and times
• McLuhan and Plato 3 - the wild horses of passion - posted in Exploring ignorance, Full range, Inclusive Exclusive, Light and Dark, Plato
• McLuhan and Plato 2 - When is myth? - posted in Exploring ignorance, Incarnation, Language, Light and Dark, Plato, Time and times
• McLuhan and Plato 1 - Phaedrus and Er - posted in Biography, Full range, Incarnation, Ontological/ontic, Time and times

July 2014

• Through the Vanishing Point 3 – Yeats - posted in Exploring ignorance, Full range, Language, Light and Dark, Time and times
• “Language itself” 2 - Wallace Stevens - posted in Exploring ignorance, Language, Light and Dark
• Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters 3 - On the existence of knowledge - posted in Exploring ignorance, Incarnation, Light and Dark, Making and Matching, McLuhan's Catholicism, Time and times
• Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters - Introduction - posted in Light and Dark, McLuhan's Catholicism

June 2014

• Through the vanishing point 2 - Shakespeare - posted in Exploring ignorance, Light and Dark, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Shakespeare
• Through the vanishing point 1 - Milton and Pope - posted in Exploring ignorance, Light and Dark
• Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters 2: What Mallarmé saw - posted in Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters, Incarnation, Joyce, Language, Mallarmé, McLuhan's Catholicism, Percept/concept, Time and times
• Mallarmé: "a competition for the foundation of the popular modern Poem" - posted in Biography, Incarnation, Joyce, Light and Dark, Making and Matching, Mallarmé, McLuhan's Catholicism
• Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters 1 - posted in Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters, Incarnation, Joyce, Language, Making and Matching, McLuhan's Catholicism, Ontological/ontic
• The Waters of Intelligibility - Mis-taking McLuhan - posted in Incarnation, Language, McLuhan's Catholicism, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Science, Water

May 2014

• The Waters of Intelligibility - posted in Incarnation, McLuhan's Catholicism, Ontological/ontic, Science, Time and times, Water
• Language itself - posted in Full range, Incarnation, Language, Music, Ontological/ontic, Water
• McLuhan and Leavis: For Continuity - posted in Biography, Merger
• GV and TT p22 — Commentary 3: "McLuhan is a charlatan" - posted in Biography, Incarnation, Making and Matching, Menippean satire, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Take Today

April 2014

• GV and TT p22 -- Commentary 2: on "true strength" - posted in Asia, Bias of Communication, Full range, Incarnation, Inclusive Exclusive, Making and Matching, Take Today
• GV and TT p22 -- Commentary 1: "the great quantum leap" - posted in Alphabet, Incarnation, Making and Matching, Percept/concept
• GV and TT p22 - posted in Full range, Take Today, Time and times

March 2014

• McLuhan to Innis 1951 (2) - posted in Innis, Single and Double Perspective, Time and times, Winnipeg School of Communications
• McLuhan to Innis 1951 (1) - posted in Bias of Communication, Innis, Single and Double Perspective, Time and times, Winnipeg School of Communications
• The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 1 - posted in Biography, Gutenberg Galaxy
• Why Science? - posted in Innis, Language, Science

February 2014

• The Proscenium Arch (3) - posted in Merger, Ontological/ontic, Preference, privilege, Single and Double Perspective, Take Today
• The Proscenium Arch (2) - posted in Full range, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Single and Double Perspective, Time and times
• The Proscenium Arch (1) - posted in Language, Physics, Single and Double Perspective
• Peace in difference - posted in Making and Matching, Merger, Ontological/ontic, Time and times

January 2014

• Brothers' broil - posted in Joyce, Time and times
• The ancient bond of guest-host-enemy - posted in Gigantomachia, McLuhan's Catholicism, Preference, privilege, Time and times
• Assmann on the battle between Horus and Seth - posted in Gigantomachia, Incarnation, Merger, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Time and times
• Mis-taking McLuhan (Kroker 2) - posted in Mis-Taking McLuhan, Ontological/ontic, Preference, privilege, Winnipeg School of Communications
• Mis-taking McLuhan (Kroker 1) - posted in Biography, Centre and Margin, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Preference, privilege, Winnipeg School of Communications
• Mis-taking McLuhan (Overview) - posted in Introduction and Overview, Mis-Taking McLuhan, Preference, privilege

December 2013

• Henry Wilkes Wright 2 - posted in Biography, Winnipeg School of Communications, Wright
• On "things most common" - posted in Incarnation, Light and Dark, McLuhan's Catholicism
• Henry Wilkes Wright - posted in Biography, Centre and Margin, Winnipeg School of Communications, Wright
• Exploring ignorance 12 - “mechanization of total human gesture” - posted in Exploring ignorance, Merger
• Exploring ignorance (11) - Mystical Unity? - posted in Exploring ignorance, Merger, Time and times
• Exploring ignorance (10a) – Rembrandt - posted in Centre and Margin, Exploring ignorance, Light and Dark

November 2013

• Exploring ignorance (10) – the dialogue of being - posted in Exploring ignorance, Merger, Take Today
• Exploring ignorance (9) - The Concept of Dread - posted in Exploring ignorance, Light and Dark, Ontological/ontic, Take Today
• Exploring ignorance 8a - Luminaid - posted in Exploring ignorance, Light and Dark
• Exploring Ignorance (8) - "Nothing completely packaged" - posted in Exploring ignorance, Light and Dark, Ontological/ontic, Take Today
• Exploring ignorance (7) - Humpty Dumpty - posted in Exploring ignorance, Making and Matching
• Exploring ignorance (6) - posted in Exploring ignorance, Ontological/ontic, Take Today
• Exploring ignorance (5) - posted in Exploring ignorance, Ontological/ontic
• Exploring ignorance (4) - posted in Exploring ignorance, Ontological/ontic
• Exploring Ignorance (3) - posted in Biography, Exploring ignorance
• Exploring ignorance (2) - posted in Exploring ignorance, Light and Dark
• Exploring ignorance (1) - posted in Exploring ignorance

October 2013

• Menippean satire 3 - posted in Menippean satire, Percept/concept
• Menippean satire 2 - posted in Full range, Menippean satire
• Oscar Hijuelos - posted in Muller-Thym
• Chrystall on time 2 - posted in Aquinas, Aristotle, Epyllion, Language, Time and times
• Menippean satire - posted in Menippean satire
• Centre and Margin 3 - posted in Centre and Margin, Language
• Centre and Margin 2 - posted in Centre and Margin
• Centre and Margin 1 - posted in Centre and Margin, Language, Time and times
• Chrystall on time 1 - posted in Language, Time and times

September 2013

• McLuhan's language 2 (Lamberti) - posted in Exploring ignorance, Language, Original complexity, Senses, Time and times
• Plenary judgment - posted in Bias of Communication
• The 'Values Discussion Group' of 1949 - posted in Bias of Communication, Innis
• McLuhan's language - posted in Language
• The bias of communication - posted in 3 Forms of Being, Bias of Communication, Introduction and Overview, Winnipeg School of Communications, Wright
• 'Limitation' in Take Today - posted in Bias of Communication, Take Today
• Media as atomic structures - posted in Bias of Communication, Introduction and Overview, Language
• RVM or through the looking glass? - posted in Introduction and Overview, Language