Category Archives: Biography

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

Media definition

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

McLuhan on first meeting Innis

Rupert Lodge: Synthesis or Comparison?

McLuhan on ‘effect’ in 1946

What Havelock knew in 1938

McLuhan’s #1 breakthrough

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

Vatican Council as politics and business

Vivisection

Knowing effects before they occur

Effects before causes

The incomprehensible mechanism

The family predicament

Lionizing and de-lionizing McLuhan

The Maelstrom in Mallarmé’s Coup de Dés

Effect before cause in Gilson

Easterbrook in Toronto

Echoes of Joyce

The very citadel of civilized awareness

John Watson’s heritage in political economics and communications

Henry Carr

Bellum-Pax-Bellum

Voices in Dubliners and A Portrait

Occultation of human thought

The New Criticism and plural times

Carpenter on McLuhan’s poetic conversation

Dagwood and the ineradicable roots of our being

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

McLuhan and the “ceaseless quest for the inclusive image”

McLuhan’s Google Doodle

On Lewis and Technology 1944

The Comparative Method of Rupert Lodge

McNaspy remembers McLuhan

McLuhan’s realism 9: Where Chesterton Comes In

Encountering Poe

Remembering Edmonton very vividly

Kaye Rowe’s “Intimate look at Marshall McLuhan”

McLuhan’s realism 7: “training in moral sensibility”

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 5: Cambridge 1934-1935

McLuhan’s realism 4: Meredith and “mystical materialism”

McLuhan’s realism 2: “the real things, exactly as they are”

McLuhan’s realism 1: St Louis 1940

Havelock and the question of ‘water’

“The formula of Virgil’s poetic chemistry”

McLuhan and Plato 15: Poe’s Maelstrom and the Phaedo

Innis and “the conditions of freedom of thought”

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

Vortex atoms in 19th century physics

Giedion on simultaneity

Giedion to Nef: “a young scholar of English literature”

Speaking of Winnipeg – “a vast sense of space and time”

Autobiography – beginning to teach in 1936

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