Category Archives: Biography

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-H 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!”

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