Category Archives: Laws of Media

McLuhan on Havelock’s mimesis

Paleface 3

Laws of the Media in the 1970s

McLuhan’s contributions

Mimesis in Laws of Media

Paleface (Introduction to Part ii)

Pre-tribal awareness

Wheeler and McLuhan

Solution lies in the problem

Pasteur

Innis or Havelock?

3 types of space

Genitives, times and essential types

Connubium of Being 1

Tactility

“Anybody can now be made famous”

Centre and margin overview

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

‘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

Point and circumference in 1939

Medium in America and Cosmic Man

Wheel and Axle

McLuhan’s “flush-profile” review of Frye

McLuhan on Whitehead

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

Psycho-dynamics (the medium is the message)

McLuhan NAEB presentation 9/23/59

On the subliminal 1

From world to worlds

The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 7

Defining the Understanding Media project

McKeon, Gilson and Rorty

McKeon’s 1935 Trivium essay 2 (the trivial debate)

Bridges of spiritual and mental states

Verlinde: Physics in the Information Age

McLuhan on “dichotomizing” in 1944

Breakthrough insight at “the level of essence”

Verbi-Voco-Visual note on the chemistry of experience

What Havelock knew in 1938

Project 69: Purpose of Project

Adolf Hildebrand

From the unconscious to the conscious to consciousness of the unconscious

The dateline 1

Different kinds of “acoustic space”

Relativity and topology

McLuhan and Heinrich Hertz 1