Category Archives: Figure/Ground

McLuhan versus The Prison House of Language 1

Buick ad 1947

Plenary consciousness 2

Connubium of Being 2

St Kevin’s tub

Poetic vs Rhetorical Exegesis 2: a question of ontology

Pound’s Guide to Kulchur

Tactility

Optophone 3: “carry everywhere the reflection of its delight”

Innis on thought and its eclipse (PEMS 7)

Innis on the eclipse of truth (PEMS 4)

Innis on media revolutions (PEMS 2)

McLuhan & Peterson: competing fundamental myths 1

Peterson and the fabled ‘thing in itself’

Nietzsche on the emotion of multitude

Jordan Peterson on the hero

Meaning as an arrow

Jung on “the energetics of the life process”

Dating key terms

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1970

Wheel and Axle

The Law of Media 2

Comments on Elder’s comments on Barilli 2

Percept and concept 1

Pugen’s time

Present as history, history as present 5/29-59

Psycho-dynamics (the medium is the message)

What is the basis of prediction?

Chemistry of the interior landscape 2

On the subliminal 1

Defining the Understanding Media project

Chemistry of the interior landscape

McLuhan on phenomenology in LOM

McLuhan on phenomenology in 1978

McKeon’s 1935 Trivium essay (the trivial debate)

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

Bridges of spiritual and mental states

Aesthetic Pattern (singular) in Keats’ Odes

The Keats essay from 1943

Breakthrough insight at “the level of essence”

Bohm on the spacetimes of consciousness

Rupert Lodge: Synthesis or Comparison?

Dialogue and ethics

Ernst Gombrich