Category Archives: Science

The vortex of the living community

A whole new genus of sciences

Ian Hacking and the Toronto School of Communication

Innis or Havelock?

3 types of space

Genitives, times and essential types

What was McLuhan up to?

Bacon and Vico

McLuhan on Vico

The entire range of human expressiveness

Moholy-Nagy 1 (Giedion on M-N in 1936)

Connubium of Being 1

Pound’s Guide to Kulchur

Tactility

Membrane

“Anybody can now be famous”

Centre and margin — Coleridge

Centre and margin overview

Optophone 3: “carry everywhere the reflection of its delight”

Optophone 1

McLuhan’s “secret societies” problem

Innis on thought and its eclipse (PEMS 7)

‘The Later Innis’ and quantum mechanics

Easterbrook on Innis and McLuhan in 1960

McLuhan on media science in 1958

McLuhan & Peterson: competing fundamental myths 1

Peterson and the fabled ‘thing in itself’

Point and circumference in 1939

Meaning as an arrow

Medium in America and Cosmic Man

Taking flight

Jung on praeceptores mundi

Jung on “the energetics of the life process”

Translating McLuhan to McLuhan

Garbage Apocalypse

Wheel and Axle

The Law of Media 1

The Law of Media 2

McLuhan’s “flush-profile” review of Frye

Comments on Elder’s comments on Barilli 2

Comments on Elder’s comments on Barilli

McLuhan at the crossroads

The Art of Being Ruled (de Kerckhove 3)

Percept and concept 1

McLuhan on Whitehead

McLuhan to Skornia 6/8/59

McLuhan to Skornia 6/7/59: “We can’t assume that we understand media already!”

McLuhan to Skornia 6/5/59

McLuhan to Skornia 6/4/59

McLuhan to Skornia early June 1959

Present as history, history as present 5/29-59

Media Log II

McLuhan to Skornia 1/25/59 (Cassirer)

McLuhan to Skornia 1/25/59

Psycho-dynamics (the medium is the message)

What is the basis of prediction?

McLuhan NAEB presentation 9/23/59

“A medium is the sum total of all its impact”

Chemistry of the interior landscape 2

“Understanding is not a point of view”

On the subliminal 1

Und so weiter! (the gap)

From world to worlds

McLuhan on Burroughs

Grammars of the Media

Defending the print medium in 1958

The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 7

The goal of science 6/25/59

Becker on NDEA Title VII funding

Defining the Understanding Media project

Chemistry of the interior landscape

McKeon, Gilson and Rorty

McKeon’s 1935 Trivium essay (the trivial debate)

McKeon’s 1935 Trivium essay (what is philosophy?)

Bridges of spiritual and mental states

Culture Without Literacy

Bacon in McLuhan 8 (Induction = Metaphor)

Bacon in McLuhan 7 (Lewis 2)

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)

Verlinde and the aversion to philosophy

Verlinde: Physics in the Information Age

Quantum communications (the implications of essential plurality)

Gigantomachia, triangular duel, siamese triplets

Aesthetic Pattern (singular) in Keats’ Odes

The Keats essay from 1943

McLuhan on “dichotomizing” in 1944

Heine on ‘Plato’ and ‘Aristotle’

Jung on Schiller 2

Jung on Schiller 1

Reading Schiller (and others)

The times of science

Breakthrough insight at “the level of essence”

McLuhan and Voegelin 1953

Review of Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism

3 forms of Being in Havelock’s Crucifixion