Category Archives: Biography

McLuhan on first meeting Innis 2

Giedion and the maelstrom

Wyndham Lewis in Innis

Dagwood’s America

McLuhan on Havelock’s mimesis

Innis’ Fur Trade volumes

Paleface 3

Havelock’s Crucifixion

Between gods and ages

Brooks & Wimsatt cite McLuhan

McLuhan and Aristotle 5 (dualisms in 1944)

McLuhan and Aristotle 4 (Synthesis between Plato and Aristotle?)

McLuhan and Aristotle 3 (the Stagirite as dialectician)

McLuhan and Aristotle 2 (Maritain’s Introduction)

McLuhan and Aristotle 1 (first encounters)

Frye’s References to McLuhan in his Collected Works

On the imbalance between physical and social science

Kenner on McLuhan, the universal sage

Reborn from ruin

McLuhan’s contributions

Dobbs: McLuhan on Nam June Paik

Dobbs: a telling problem

Bio statement from 1944

McLuhan and Kenner (the plotline of Dublin’s Joyce)

McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin’s Joyce, chap 6)

Chaos and confusion in 1948

McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin’s Joyce, chap 5)

McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin’s Joyce, chap 3)

McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin’s Joyce, chap 2)

McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin’s Joyce, chap 1)

Faculty of Interrelation in Toronto

“Arrest in time” in McLuhan

“Arrest in time” in Lewis

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

A whole new genus of sciences

Future of the human species

Innis or Havelock?

Mac to Lewis, 1944

WSC Museum 6: Reading Wright

WSC Museum 5: Watson Kirkconnell

WSC Museum 4: Tom Easterbrook

WSC Museum 3: Carl Williams & Kelvin

WSC Museum anteroom: peace in the global village?

WSC Museum 2: Gertrude Avenue connection

Havelock in 1940

WSC Museum 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 made 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