Category Archives: Theme

Mac to Lewis, 1944

McLuhan versus The Prison House of Language 1

WSCM6: Reading Wright

WSCM5: Watson Kirkconnell

WSCM 4: Tom Easterbrook

WSCM 3: Carl Williams & Kelvin

WSCM anteroom: peace in the global village?

Wright on matter and spirit in 1917

Havelock in db of classical scholars

The earwig when bisected fights itself

Buick ad 1947

Typhon/Minotaur/Dionysus parallels

McLuhan and Winters 2

McLuhan and Winters 1

Plenary consciousness 2

Plenary consciousness (McLuhan and Hegel)

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

Classroom TV (1956)

Connubium of Being 3

Connubium of Being 2

Connubium of Being 1

Elsie on the move

East & west, horizontal & vertical

End/beginning of FW

St Kevin’s tub

Poetic vs Rhetorical Exegesis 2: a question of ontology

Poetic vs Rhetorical Exegesis 1

Pound’s Guide to Kulchur

Seneca

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 2

Optophone 1

Tis optophone which ontophanes

Illusion and Reality

Voegelin letters background

McLuhan’s “secret societies” problem

Innis on thought and its eclipse (PEMS 7)

Innis multiplying Hugo (PEMS 6)

Hugo on Gutenberg in 1831: the second tower of Babel

Innis on limitation (PEMS 5)

‘The Later Innis’ and quantum mechanics

Innis on the eclipse of truth (PEMS 4)

Innis on the state of the world in 2021 (PEMS 3)

Innis on media revolutions (PEMS 2)

The Electronic Revolution and the Undeveloped Countries of the Mind

McLuhan reads Innis (PEMS 1)

Easterbrook on Innis and McLuhan in 1960

McLuhan on media science in 1958

Peterson on Eliot’s knot

McLuhan & Peterson: competing fundamental myths 1

Peterson: time or times?

Peterson and the fabled ‘thing in itself’

Nietzsche on the emotion of multitude

Zarathustra: Listen to me even with your eyes!

Jordan Peterson on the hero

Jordan Peterson and Marshall McLuhan

Point and circumference in 1939

Nihilism stands at the door

Meaning as an arrow

Medium in America and Cosmic Man

Taking flight

Jung on praeceptores mundi

Jung on the interior landscape

Jung on “the energetics of the life process”

Translating McLuhan to McLuhan

Citadel of inclusive awareness

Dating key terms

Burroughs on ‘Literary Techniques’

McLuhan reads Burroughs

Statement on Culture and Technology

Garbage Apocalypse

Harry Skornia, peace activist

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1973-1974

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1969

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1970

Wheel and Axle

McLuhan 1974 letter to Murray Schafer

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

Pugen’s time

Ignatov on Maritain on Bergson 2

Ignatov on Maritain on Bergson 1

Maelstrom in Ertrog and Yeats

McLuhan on Whitehead

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