Category Archives: Friends

Shaw & the hurdles of communication

McKeon, Gilson and Rorty

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 1

Culture Without Literacy

‘A Federal Offense!’

“Canadians” as McLuhan mirror

Lewis in McLuhan 3 (‘Nihilism Exposed’)

Bacon in McLuhan 7 (Lewis 2)

Lewis in McLuhan 1 (‘Lemuel in Lilliput’)

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

Bacon in McLuhan 1 (Nashe thesis)

On nisus

Vertical and horizontal times in Saussure and Nevitt

S.D. Neill on Innis and McLuhan

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

Ransom to Tate and Guerry on McLuhan

Past the vanishing point

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

3 forms of Being in Havelock’s Crucifixion

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

Heinrich Wölfflin and the laws of media

McLuhan on first meeting Innis

Rupert Lodge: Synthesis or Comparison?

What Havelock knew in 1938

Heinrich Wölfflin

Grant on Innis and Cochrane

Universal abdication of human motive

McLuhan’s new sciences: “only the authority of knowledge”

Havelock, McLuhan & the history of education

McLuhan reading Havelock’s Crucifixion

How it is

Eliot on Scylla and Charybdis

Blackout

What is the present?

Archetypes as inherently plural

Vivisection

Effects before causes

The Maelstrom in Mallarmé’s Coup de Dés

Effect before cause in Gilson

Easterbrook in Toronto

“The very citadel of civilized awareness”

Henry Carr

Bellum-Pax-Bellum

Occultation of human thought

Patterson on McLuhan’s acquaintance with Innis

Easterbrook to Innis on the “juxtaposition of unlikes”

McLuhan’s realism 10: Pound on the ideograph

Writing and the Alphabet in Innis and McLuhan

McLuhan’s times

On Lewis and Technology 1944

The Comparative Method of Rupert Lodge

McNaspy remembers McLuhan

McLuhan’s realism 9: Where Chesterton Comes In

McLuhan: ‘The Global Lewis’

Lewis in 1943: “The Frontiers of Art or the Cultural Melting Pot”

McLuhan’s realism 6: dialectics and erudition not enough

Nef on McLuhan’s proposal

Proposal to Robert Hutchins 1947

McLuhan’s realism 1: St Louis 1940

Havelock and the question of ‘water’

“The formula of Virgil’s poetic chemistry”

Poe’s Maelstrom and Plato’s Phaedo

Innis and “the conditions of freedom of thought”

The bubble of life in Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Havelock and Innis

Giedion on simultaneity

Giedion to Nef re a “promising young scholar”

Preface to Eric Havelock and the Toronto School

Innis, McLuhan and “the “power of metamorphosis”

The “magical” essence of communication

The Toronto school and 3 Plato books

I.A. Richards on Eric Havelock

Theuth in Plato’s Philebus

Parry and Lord in McLuhan

The Journey of Aeneas through the Waste Land

Encountering Maritain in 1934

McLuhan and Father Gerald Phelan 1934-1936

Innis and McLuhan in 1936

Stamps on Havelock and McLuhan

Goody on Havelock, Innis and McLuhan

Theall on Innis, Havelock and McLuhan

The question of unity

Autobiography 1954: McLuhan & Williams on discovering ‘auditory space’

Relativity in Space, Time & Architecture