Category Archives: Theme

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

William James on the “free water of consciousness”

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

Writing and the Alphabet in Innis and McLuhan

McLuhan’s times

McLuhan and the “ceaseless quest for the inclusive image”

On Lewis and Technology 1944

The Comparative Method of Rupert Lodge

McNaspy remembers McLuhan

McLuhan’s realism 9: Where Chesterton Comes In

McLuhan’s realism 8: Chesterton as practical mystic

Encountering Poe

McLuhan’s realism 7: “training in moral sensibility”

McLuhan’s realism 6: dialectics and erudition not enough

Nef on McLuhan’s proposal

The brother’s tale

Ms. Found In A Bottle – Edgar Poe

McLuhan’s realism 5: Cambridge 1934-1935

McLuhan’s realism 4: Meredith and “mystical materialism”

McLuhan’s realism 3: against perceptual engineering

McLuhan’s realism 2: “the real things, exactly as they are”

McLuhan’s realism 1: St Louis 1940

Havelock and the question of ‘water’

“The formula of Virgil’s poetic chemistry”

Poe’s Maelstrom and Plato’s Phaedo

“Great change” in Descent into the Maelstrom

The bubble of life in Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Havelock and Innis

A Descent into the Maelstrom – Edgar Poe

Vortex atoms in 19th century physics

Giedion on simultaneity

McLuhan and Beckett: Through the vanishing point by way of neither