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The Toronto school and Schiller

Lodge, Richards and Schiller’s Aesthetic Letters

Schiller’s Aesthetic Letters and nihilism

The times of science

The breakthrough insight at “the level of essence”

Planet as art-form before the satellite

Past the vanishing point

“Ancient quarrel” in Lewis

“Ancient quarrel” and its synonyms (1950’s)

“Ancient quarrel” and its synonyms (1940’s)

Review of Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism

Lewis on the fate of the West

Reversal 1

Media definition

Planet polluto, garbage apocalypse

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

The subjugation of the human spirit

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

3 forms of Being in Havelock’s Crucifixion

Richards’ existential demand

On the “necessary conjoint” of Platonists and Aristotelians

Wakese 1: On the quintessential extraction of language

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

Bohm on “the wrong turn”

Bohm on the spacetimes of consciousness

Bohm on the ratio of ratios

Bohm on making and matching

McLuhan interview on The City as Classroom

Bohm on percept and concept

Bohm on formal cause

Verbi-Voco-Visual note on the chemistry of experience

Poetry as circuit control

Charles Cochrane and “problems of time”

Lindberg before and after Foundations

John Lindberg

“Perpetuity of collective harmony” as judo

Heinrich Wölfflin and the laws of media

McLuhan on first meeting Innis

Rupert Lodge: Synthesis or Comparison?

McLuhan on ‘effect’ in 1946

What Havelock knew in 1938

Dialogue and ethics

Project 69: What I Learned On The Project

Kenneth Boulding

McLuhan’s #1 breakthrough

Richard L Meier and “substitutability”

Georg von Békésy

Multi-levels of simultaneous presentation

Ernst Gombrich

William Ivins

Heinrich Wölfflin

Adolf Hildebrand

McLuhan to Serge Chermayeff

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

Havelock, McLuhan & the history of education

The keyboards of existence

How it is

Human being: navigator between worlds

The world too much with us

Present depicted 60 years ago

Eliot on Scylla and Charybdis

Scylla and Charybdis

Blackout

What is the present?

Jung

Archetypes as inherently plural

X-ray awareness, the inside story

Vatican Council as politics and business

Vivisection

The spectrum of forms

When is ‘before’?

Knowing effects before they occur

Déjà vu

The sensory thresholds of our being

Marchand on McLuhan on the Maelstrom

Effects before causes

The incomprehensible mechanism

The humble ditch

Percepts of existence

A sense of reality

The Maelstrom in Mallarmé’s Coup de Dés

Effect before cause in Gilson

John Watson’s heritage in political economics and communications

Bellum-Pax-Bellum

The bubble of life in Joyce’s Portrait

Voices in Dubliners and A Portrait

The Gorgon

Monstrosity

From the unconscious to the conscious to consciousness of the unconscious

The New Criticism and plural times

The question of the “objective correlative”

McLuhan to Overduin on water and fish