Category Archives: Influences

Hominization of the planet 2

Through the vanishing point with Nietzsche

McLuhan’s communication problem

The vortex of the living community

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’

Nietzsche 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

McLuhan to Skornia 6/8/59

Psycho-dynamics (the medium is the message)

Birthpains of the new: “an arduous metamorphosis”

What is the basis of prediction?

“Understanding is not a point of view”

From world to worlds

McLuhan on Burroughs

Marshall, Harry and Baudelaire

Charge of the light brigade

Richard Hughes on media and the senses

McLuhan on phenomenology in LOM

McLuhan on phenomenology in 1978

McLuhan in Nova Scotia

Herb McLuhan in Maclean’s

How communicate the presupposition to communication?

Shaw & the hurdles of communication

Eisenstein 5 (the time of ‘epoch’)

Epoch: Dostoevsky

McLuhan to Innis 1951 (3)

Eisenstein 4 (1951)

Eisenstein 3 (Balázs)

Eisenstein 2 (Zavattini)

Eisenstein 1

Bridges of spiritual and mental states

Early McLuhan on film

Beyond the cultural monad

Bacon in McLuhan 8 (Induction = Metaphor)

Lewis in McLuhan 3 (‘Nihilism Exposed’)

Bacon in McLuhan 7 (Lewis 2)

Lewis in McLuhan 1 (‘Lemuel in Lilliput’)

Wakese 4: Swift’s engine of communicativeness

Bacon in McLuhan 6 (‘Medieval Grammar as the Basis of Bacon’s Novum Organum‘)

Bacon in McLuhan 5 (‘Francis Bacon, Ancient or Modern?’)

Bacon in McLuhan 4 (‘Printing and Social Change’)

Bacon in McLuhan 3 (Gutenberg Galaxy)

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

Bacon in McLuhan 1 (Nashe thesis)

Stewart Robb

The essential plurality of the forms of being