Category Archives: Biography

Evolution: shift from biology to technology

The representative ferment

Mimesis in Laws of Media

Wyndham Lewis, Paleface, comments

Paleface (Introduction to Part ii)

Mimesis

Nous poietikos, agent intellect

Simulation

Predicting the present

Global Conference on the Future

Easterbrook on Innis

Crump’s Epyllion

Gutenberg Quincentenary 1940

James Tenney and Wolfgang Köhler

The spectacle of redemption

Extra sensory perception

Inclusive consciousness

McLuhan replays Elsie

Multi-space dialogue in Greece

Future of the human species

Innis or Havelock?

Mac to Lewis, 1944

WSCM 6: Reading Wright

WSCM 5: Watson Kirkconnell

WSCM 4: Tom Easterbrook

WSCM 3: Carl Williams & Kelvin

WSCM anteroom: peace in the global village?

WSCM 2: Gertrude Avenue connection

WSCM 1: Winnipeg in 1920

Portrait of Rupert Clendon Lodge

Portrait of Henry Wilkes Wright

Havelock in db of classical scholars

Lodge in db of classical scholars

The earwig when bisected fights itself

McLuhan and Winters 2

McLuhan and Winters 1

Plenary consciousness 2

Hayakawa to McLuhan in 1968

Moholy-Nagy 2 (Hayakawa)

Moholy-Nagy 1 (Giedion on M-N in 1936)

Classroom without walls

NAEB grant for “understanding media”

Connubium of Being 3

Eliot’s bread

Connubium of Being 1

Elsie on the move

East & west, horizontal & vertical

Poetic vs Rhetorical Exegesis 1

Pound’s Guide to Kulchur

“Anybody can now be famous”

Centre and margin overview

Tis optophone which ontophanes

Illusion and Reality

Voegelin letters background

McLuhan’s “secret societies” problem

Innis on thought and its eclipse (PEMS 7)

Innis multiplying Hugo (PEMS 6)

Hugo on Gutenberg in 1831: the second tower of Babel

Innis on limitation (PEMS 5)

‘The Later Innis’ and quantum mechanics

Innis on the eclipse of truth (PEMS 4)

Innis on the state of the world in 2021 (PEMS 3)

Media Man in National Lampoon

Innis on media revolutions (PEMS 2)

The Electronic Revolution and the Undeveloped Countries of the Mind

Innis citing Trollope on CV-building

McLuhan reads Innis (PEMS 1)

Easterbrook on Innis and McLuhan in 1960

Jordan Peterson and Marshall McLuhan

Point and circumference in 1939

Nihilism stands at the door

Meaning as an arrow

First meeting with Wyndham Lewis

Medium in America and Cosmic Man

Dating key terms

Statement on Culture and Technology

Harry Skornia, peace activist

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1963

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1964

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1965

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1966

Patterns of Literary Criticism 

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1972

McLuhan 1974 letter to Murray Schafer

The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 9

Frye’s References to McLuhan in Correspondence

Comments on Elder’s comments on Barilli 2

Maritain on Phelan

Comments on Elder’s comments on Barilli

Dating McLuhan’s “flush-profile” review of Frye

McLuhan at the crossroads

The Art of Being Ruled (de Kerckhove 3)

“A genus of homicidal puppets, sure enough” (de Kerckhove 2)

de Kerckhove’s Digital Transformation 1

The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 8

Pugen’s time

Maelstrom in Ertrog and Yeats

Marshall foresees Zoom

McLuhan to Skornia 6/8/59

McLuhan to Skornia 6/7/59: “We can’t assume that we understand media already!”