Category Archives: Influences

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

Verlinde: Physics in the Information Age

Gigantomachia, triangular duel, siamese triplets

Lodge in Dalhousie Review

McLuhan’s 1963 Dalhousie book review

Lévi-Strauss on method in anthropology

Heine on ‘Plato’ and ‘Aristotle’

Jung on Schiller 2

Jung on Schiller 1

Jung’s drame intérieur

Reading Schiller (and others)

The Toronto school and Schiller

Lodge, Richards and Schiller’s Aesthetic Letters

Schiller’s Aesthetic Letters and nihilism

The times of science

Breakthrough insight at “the level of essence”

Voegelin and the question of “intelligible units”

McLuhan and Voegelin 1953

Past the vanishing point

Review of Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism

Wakese 3: “A word is a single shot of a process”

Wakese 2: McLuhan on the “potencies” of language

Lodge in W.O. Mitchell’s Who Has Seen the Wind

McLuhan vs Richards, Transformation vs Transportation

Richards’ existential demand

On the “necessary conjoint” of Platonists and Aristotelians

Wakese 1: On the quintessential extraction of language

Heisenberg on possibility

Heisenberg on ‘an ancient quarrel’

Ontology and physics

Bohm and Hiley on “active information”

Riezler on possibility

Riezler on ontology

Riezler on the situation of the world

Poetry as circuit control

McLuhan on first meeting Innis

McLuhan on ‘effect’ in 1946

“Factual means of avoiding disaster”

Multi-levels of simultaneous presentation

The keyboards of existence

Human being: navigator between worlds

Eliot on Scylla and Charybdis

Blackout

Jung

Archetypes as inherently plural

Vivisection

The spectrum of forms

Déjà vu

Marchand on McLuhan on the Maelstrom

Effects before causes

The incomprehensible mechanism

The Maelstrom in Mallarmé’s Coup de Dés

Effect before cause in Gilson

Echoes of Joyce

The very citadel of civilized awareness

John Watson’s heritage in political economics and communications

Henry Carr

Bellum-Pax-Bellum

The bubble of life in Joyce’s Portrait

Voices in Dubliners and A Portrait

The New Criticism and plural times

The question of the “objective correlative”