Category Archives: Theme

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

McLuhan to Skornia 3/14/59

McLuhan on dialogue February 1959

Media Log II

McLuhan to Skornia 1/25/59 (Cassirer)

McLuhan to Skornia 1/25/59

Psycho-dynamics (the medium is the message)

Birthpains of the new: “an arduous metamorphosis”

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

Marshall, Harry and Baudelaire

Defining the Understanding Media project

Charge of the light brigade

Richard Hughes on media and the senses

Chemistry of the interior landscape

McLuhan on phenomenology in LOM

McLuhan on phenomenology in 1978

Herb McLuhan in Maclean’s

How communicate the presupposition to communication?

Shaw & the hurdles of communication

McKeon, Gilson and Rorty

McLuhan and George Bernard Shaw

McLuhan, Hayakawa and Allison

McKeon’s 1935 Trivium essay (the trivial debate)

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

Eisenstein 5 (the time of ‘epoch’)

Epoch: Dostoevsky

McLuhan to Innis 1951 (3)

Eisenstein 4 (1951)

Eisenstein 3 (Balázs)

Eisenstein 2 (Zavattini)

Eisenstein 1

Bridges of spiritual and mental states

Early McLuhan on film

Beyond the cultural monad

Analog and digital times

Culture Without Literacy

The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 6

“Canadians” as McLuhan mirror

Bacon in McLuhan 8 (Induction = Metaphor)

Lewis in McLuhan 3 (‘Nihilism Exposed’)

Bacon in McLuhan 7 (Lewis 2)

Lewis in McLuhan 1 (‘Lemuel in Lilliput’)

Wakese 4: Swift’s engine of communicativeness

Hayakawa and Alfred Korzybski

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)

Stewart Robb

The essential plurality of the forms of being

Verlinde and the aversion to philosophy

Verlinde: Physics in the Information Age

Quantum communications (the implications of essential plurality)

On nisus

Vertical and horizontal times in Saussure and Nevitt

Gigantomachia, triangular duel, siamese triplets

McLuhan and Lodge (‘Philosophy and Education’)

Bradbrook’s School of Night and the dynamics of experience

“Food for the mind is like food for the body”

Aesthetic Pattern (singular) in Keats’ Odes

McLuhan’s 1963 Dalhousie book review

The Keats essay from 1943

McLuhan on “dichotomizing” in 1944

Lévi-Strauss on method in anthropology

Jung on Schiller 2

Jung on Schiller 1

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)

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