Category Archives: Theme

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

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)