Category Archives: Biography

McLuhan to Skornia 6/8/59

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

McLuhan to Skornia 6/5/59

McLuhan to Skornia 6/4/59

McLuhan to Skornia early June 1959

Present as history, history as present 5/29-59

McLuhan to Skornia 3/14/59

McLuhan on dialogue February 1959

Report on Washington Educational TV conference (May 1958)

McLuhan to Skornia 1/25/59 (Cassirer)

McLuhan to Skornia 1/25/59

Birthpains of the new: “an arduous metamorphosis”

What is the basis of prediction?

McLuhan NAEB presentation 9/23/59

“A medium is the sum total of all its impact”

Chemistry of the interior landscape 2

On the subliminal 1

Und so weiter! (the gap)

From world to worlds

McLuhan on Burroughs

Grammars of the Media

Defending the print medium in 1958

The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 7

The goal of science 6/25/59

Becker on NDEA Title VII funding

McNamee and Ong remember McLuhan

Assessment of McLuhan

Marshall, Harry and Baudelaire

Defining the Understanding Media project

Charge of the light brigade

Richard Hughes on media and the senses

McLuhan and Father R.C. Williams

Chemistry of the interior landscape

McLuhan and Skornia 1957 and 1958

NAEB seminar December 1957

First contact with the NAEB

McLuhan in Nova Scotia

The McLuhans move to Winnipeg

Herb McLuhan in Maclean’s

How communicate the presupposition to communication?

Shaw & the hurdles of communication

McKeon, Gilson and Rorty

McLuhan and George Bernard Shaw

McLuhan, Hayakawa and Allison

McKeon’s 1935 Trivium essay (the trivial debate)

McKeon’s 1935 Trivium essay (what is philosophy?)

McLuhan to Innis 1951 (3)

Eisenstein 4 (1951)

Eisenstein 3 (Balázs)

Eisenstein 2 (Zavattini)

Eisenstein 1

Early McLuhan on film

Culture Without Literacy

The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 6

‘A Federal Offense!’

The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 5

“Canadians” as McLuhan mirror

Bacon in McLuhan 8 (Induction = Metaphor)

Lewis in McLuhan 3 (‘Nihilism Exposed’)

Bacon in McLuhan 7 (Lewis 2)

Lewis in McLuhan 1 (‘Lemuel in Lilliput’)

Hayakawa and Alfred Korzybski

Bacon in McLuhan 2 (‘Bacon’s Patristic Inheritance’)

Bacon in McLuhan 1 (Nashe thesis)

Stewart Robb

On nisus

Vertical and horizontal times in Saussure and Nevitt

S.D. Neill on Innis and McLuhan

McLuhan and Lodge (‘Philosophy and Education’)

Lloyd Wheeler

Bradbrook’s School of Night and the dynamics of experience

“Food for the mind is like food for the body”

Aesthetic Pattern (singular) in Keats’ Odes

Lodge in Dalhousie Review

The Keats essay from 1943

McLuhan’s course books

The “new level” of art

Voegelin and the question of “intelligible units”

Communications Programme at UBC

Irish Bull

Ransom to Tate and Guerry on McLuhan

Past the vanishing point

Review of Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism

Lewis citing Hutton’s Aretino on calumny

Statement by Pound signed by McLuhan

Lewis on the fate of the West

Reversal 1

Planet polluto, garbage apocalypse

The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 4

Lodge in W.O. Mitchell’s Who Has Seen the Wind

3 forms of Being in Havelock’s Crucifixion

On the “necessary conjoint” of Platonists and Aristotelians

Heisenberg on possibility

Bohm on “the wrong turn”

McLuhan Bohm jigsaw pieces

Poetry as circuit control

Charles Cochrane and “problems of time”

Cochrane on “an all-pervasive change in outlook” in Athens

John Lindberg

Heinrich Wölfflin and the laws of media