Category Archives: Communication

McLuhan on Havelock’s mimesis

McLuhan and Aristotle 4 (Synthesis between Plato and Aristotle?)

Dobbs: Hand signals for the blind

Dobbs: a telling problem

McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin’s Joyce, chap 3)

Faculty of Interrelation in Toronto

Evolution: shift from biology to technology

Paleface (Introduction to Part ii)

Mimesis

Pre-tribal awareness

Dali TV Guide interview: watch TV upside down

Ear-view mirror

McLuhan’s communication problem

Genitives, times and essential types

What was McLuhan up to?

McLuhan and Plato 8½ – Gigantomachia in the Symposium

McLuhan ABC ad on “friendly teamness”

WSC Museum 3: Carl Williams & Kelvin

Havelock in 1940

Poetic vs Rhetorical Exegesis 1

Seneca

Tactility

Centre and margin overview

Optophone 1

Tis optophone which ontophanes

Voegelin letters background

Innis on thought and its eclipse (PEMS 7)

‘The Later Innis’ and quantum mechanics

McLuhan reads Innis (PEMS 1)

Easterbrook on Innis and McLuhan in 1960

Taking flight

McLuhan reads Burroughs

McLuhan to Skornia 6/4/59

McLuhan on dialogue February 1959

McLuhan to Skornia 1/25/59 (Cassirer)

McLuhan NAEB presentation 9/23/59

“Understanding is not a point of view”

Grammars of the Media

McLuhan on phenomenology in 1978

Eisenstein 2 (Zavattini)

Early McLuhan on film

Beyond the cultural monad

Culture Without Literacy

Bacon in McLuhan 1 (Nashe thesis)

Wakese 2: McLuhan on the “potencies” of language

McLuhan vs Richards, Transformation vs Transportation

Carpenter on McLuhan’s poetic conversation

Proposal to Robert Hutchins 1947

Innis and “the conditions of freedom of thought”