Category Archives: Friends

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”

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

Chemistry of the interior landscape 2

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

Chemistry of the interior landscape

McLuhan and Skornia 1957 and 1958

NAEB seminar December 1957

First contact with the NAEB

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

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

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