Category Archives: Science

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

Media definition

3 forms of Being in Havelock’s Crucifixion

Bohm on times

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

Bohm on “the wrong turn”

McLuhan Bohm jigsaw pieces

Bohm on the spacetimes of consciousness

Bohm on the ratio of ratios

Bohm on making and matching

Bohm on percept and concept

Bohm on formal cause

Verbi-Voco-Visual note on the chemistry of experience

Poetry as circuit control

Lindberg before and after Foundations

John Lindberg

“Perpetuity of collective harmony” as judo

Heinrich Wölfflin and the laws of media

Rupert Lodge: Synthesis or Comparison?

What Havelock knew in 1938

Dialogue and ethics

McLuhan’s #1 breakthrough

Project 69: Purpose of Project

Tobias Dantzig

William Ivins

Adolf Hildebrand

McLuhan’s new sciences: “only the authority of knowledge”

The keyboards of existence

How it is

Present depicted 60 years ago

The spectrum of forms

2017 foreseen in 1965

Knowing effects before they occur

The sensory thresholds of our being

Effects before causes

Percepts of existence

The very citadel of civilized awareness

Bellum-Pax-Bellum

Monstrosity

From the unconscious to the conscious to consciousness of the unconscious

The question of the “objective correlative”

Language and experience

Dagwood and the ineradicable roots of our being

Easterbrook to Innis on the “juxtaposition of unlikes”

McLuhan’s realism 10: Pound on the ideograph

McLuhan’s realism 6: dialectics and erudition not enough

Innis and “the conditions of freedom of thought”

Vortex atoms in 19th century physics

The vacuum tube, “the ballet of electrons”

Relativity in Space, Time & Architecture

The dateline 1

Relativity in Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters

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

Analogy of proper proportionality

Giedion – an “Author’s Note”

Minkowski in Giedion

“New Media Changing Spatial Orientation Of Self”

Different kinds of “acoustic space”

Einstein

Relativity in The Mechanical Bride

Field theory

The mosaic in A Faculty of Interrelations

Schafer — The Tuning of the World

What is coherence?

Relativity and topology

Preface to The Mechanical Bride: “provisional affairs for apprehending reality”

McLuhan and Heinrich Hertz 1

Deutsch on Christian complementarity

Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner and Poe’s Maelstrom

Havelock on the ‘oral-literate equation’

Babel

Sense and senselessness 1 — Some sense?

The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 2 – Carothers

Uttering, outering

McLuhan and Plato 4 – Narcissus

The Waters of Intelligibility – Mis-taking McLuhan