Category Archives: Influences

McLuhan and Aristotle 4 (Thomas’ 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)

Malinowski’s “new science” of culture (part 1)

Contesting twofolds in Egypt and Greece

Kenner on McLuhan, the universal sage

Reborn from ruin

McLuhan’s contributions

Bio statement from 1944

Dilworth: McLuhan on The Waste Land

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 4)

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

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

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

Euclid and effect

“Arrest in time” in McLuhan

McLuhan and Plato 14: “nothing exists in itself”

Evolution: shift from biology to technology

The representative ferment

Wyndham Lewis, Paleface, comments

Paleface (Introduction to Part ii)

Mimesis

Nous poietikos, agent intellect

Simulation

McLuhan and Plato 13: epyllion

Minotaur

Crump’s Epyllion

Gutenberg Quincentenary 1940

James Tenney and Wolfgang Köhler

The spectacle of redemption

McLuhan and Plato 12 — Cratylus

Inclusive consciousness

Ear-view mirror

Hominization of the planet 2

Through the vanishing point with Nietzsche

McLuhan’s communication problem

The vortex of the living community

A whole new genus of sciences

McLuhan & Peterson: competing fundamental myths 2

What was McLuhan up to?

Bacon and Vico

McLuhan on Vico

G.S. Brett

McDonald on Humboldt and McLuhan

The entire range of human expressiveness

Thoth: “the third ends the discord of the two”

Olympus, Pelion and Ossa in Hamlet

McLuhan and Plato 8½ – Gigantomachia in the Symposium

Mac to Lewis, 1944

The earwig when bisected fights itself

Buick ad 1947

Typhon/Minotaur/Dionysus parallels

Plenary consciousness (McLuhan and Hegel)

Connubium of Being 2

Eliot’s bread

East & west, horizontal & vertical

End/beginning of FW

St Kevin’s tub

Poetic vs Rhetorical Exegesis 2: a question of ontology

Poetic vs Rhetorical Exegesis 1

Seneca

Membrane

Centre and margin — Coleridge

Optophone 2

Optophone 1

Tis optophone which ontophanes

Voegelin letters background

McLuhan’s “secret societies” problem

‘The Later Innis’ and quantum mechanics

Innis on the eclipse of truth (PEMS 4)

Innis on media revolutions (PEMS 2)

McLuhan reads Innis (PEMS 1)

Easterbrook on Innis and McLuhan in 1960

Peterson on Eliot’s knot

Peterson: time or times?

Peterson and the fabled ‘thing in itself’

Yeats on the emotion of multitude

Zarathustra: Listen to me even with your eyes!

Jordan Peterson on the hero

Jordan Peterson and Marshall McLuhan

Nihilism stands at the door

Medium in America and Cosmic Man

Jung on praeceptores mundi

Jung on the interior landscape

Jung on “the energetics of the life process”

Statement on Culture and Technology

Garbage Apocalypse

McLuhan’s “flush-profile” review of Frye

Maritain on Phelan

Comments on Elder’s comments on Barilli

McLuhan at the crossroads

Percept and concept 1

Ignatov on Maritain on Bergson 2

Ignatov on Maritain on Bergson 1

Maelstrom in Ertrog and Yeats