Category Archives: Influences

Dagwood and the ineradicable roots of our being

McLuhan’s times

McLuhan’s realism 9: Where Chesterton Comes In

McLuhan’s realism 8: Chesterton as practical mystic

Encountering Poe

Kaye Rowe’s “Intimate look at Marshall McLuhan”

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

The brother’s tale

Proposal to Robert Hutchins 1947

McLuhan’s realism 5: Cambridge 1934-1935

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

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

Vortex atoms in 19th century physics

Giedion on simultaneity

Autobiography – beginning to teach in 1936

Innis, McLuhan and “the “power of metamorphosis”

The “magical” essence of communication

The Toronto school and 3 Plato books

Reuel Denney

What nobody knows

I.A. Richards on Eric Havelock

On the frontier everybody is a nobody

Tradition and the Individual Talent

“Body percept” – identity, space and time

Theuth in Plato’s Philebus

Parry and Lord in McLuhan

The Journey of Aeneas through the Waste Land

Abcedmindedness

Encountering Maritain in 1934

McLuhan and Father Gerald Phelan 1934-1936

Innis and McLuhan in 1936

The vacuum tube, “the ballet of electrons”

Wiener on the Vacuum Tube

Pre-Christian Logos

Relativity in Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters

Autobiography 1956: “Huge shift in the geography of perception and feeling”

Ontology and epistemology

Analogy of proper proportionality

Minkowski in Giedion

“New Media Changing Spatial Orientation Of Self”

Einstein

What is coherence?

Relativity and topology

T.S. Eliot in Winnipeg

Deutsch on Christian complementarity

The Maelstrom in Dostoevsky

“Deutsch’s interesting pamphlet on communication” 1

Eliot’s ‘From Poe to Valéry’

The Road to Xanadu

Autobiography – the experience of the second conversion

McLuhan on Poe’s Maelstrom

Innis to McLuhan February 26, 1951

Richards and Havelock before 1947

Havelock, Innis and Richards in 1947

McLuhan to Richards July 1968

Richards on the media 5

Richards on the media 4

Richards on the media 3

Richards on the media 2

Richards on the media 1

Hopkins: peace allows the death of it

Richards and McLuhan: essential differences

Richards and McLuhan – The Windhover

Richards – the trivium, the eddy and the 2 sides of the mirror

Comparative philosophy – Masson-Oursel and Crookshank

McLuhan’s Topic #3 – Richards and ontology

McLuhan’s Topic #1 – “the law of writ”

Autobiography – encountering Shakespeare

Autobiography — Richards and Empson

Subjective and objective genitive 2

McLuhan and Plato 1: strange prisoners like ourselves

McLuhan and Plato 11- on the perception of the child (obj gen)

McLuhan and Plato 10 – on the child and the child’s perception

McLuhan and Plato 9 – on the plain of oblivion

Autobiography 1962

McLuhan and Plato 8 – Gigantomachia

McLuhan and Plato 7 – “a poise between”

McLuhan and Plato 6 – Theuth

McLuhan and Plato 5 – Peter Pan

McLuhan and Plato 4 – Narcissus

McLuhan and Plato 3 – the wild horses of passion

McLuhan and Plato 2 – When is myth?

Through the vanishing point 2 – Shakespeare

Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters 2: What Mallarmé saw

Mallarmé: “a competition for the foundation of the popular modern Poem”

Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters 1

Brothers’ broil

Chrystall on time 2