McLuhan's New Sciences
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McLuhan’s new sciences: “only the authority of knowledge”
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McLuhan and Aristotle 3 (the Stagirite as dialectician)
McLuhan and Aristotle 2 (Maritain’s
Introduction
)
Contesting twofolds in Egypt and Greece
McLuhan’s contributions
McLuhan and Kenner (
Dublin’s Joyce
, chap 4)
Wyndham Lewis,
Paleface
, comments
Wheeler and McLuhan
Solution lies in the problem
Pasteur
McNamara’s band
McLuhan’s advice to Leary
Innis or Havelock?
Genitives, times and essential types
The entire range of human expressiveness
Plenary consciousness 2
Plenary consciousness (McLuhan and Hegel)
Poetic vs Rhetorical Exegesis 2: a question of ontology
Tactility
Tis optophone which ontophanes
The Electronic Revolution and the Undeveloped Countries of the Mind
McLuhan on media science in 1958
McLuhan & Peterson: competing fundamental myths 1
Peterson: time or times?
Yeats on the emotion of multitude
Taking flight
Wheel and Axle
McLuhan’s “flush-profile” review of Frye
Chemistry of the interior landscape 2
“Understanding is not a point of view”
McLuhan on phenomenology in
LOM
McLuhan and George Bernard Shaw
Eisenstein 5 (the time of ‘epoch’)
Bridges of spiritual and mental states
Bacon in McLuhan 6 (‘Medieval Grammar as the Basis of Bacon’s
Novum Organum
‘)
Bacon in McLuhan 3 (
Gutenberg Galaxy
)
The essential plurality of the forms of being
Gigantomachia, triangular duel, siamese triplets
The Keats essay from 1943
McLuhan on “dichotomizing” in 1944
Lévi-Strauss on method in anthropology
Jung on Schiller 2
Lindberg before and after
Foundations
McLuhan on first meeting Innis
Rupert Lodge: Synthesis or Comparison?
William Ivins
The keyboards of existence
Archetypes as inherently plural
X-ray awareness, the inside story
Dagwood and the ineradicable roots of our being
On Lewis and Technology 1944
McLuhan’s realism 9: Where Chesterton Comes In
McLuhan’s realism 7: “training in moral sensibility”
McLuhan’s realism 6: dialectics and erudition not enough
Proposal to Robert Hutchins 1947
McLuhan’s realism 5: Cambridge 1934-1935
“The formula of Virgil’s poetic chemistry”
What nobody knows
On the frontier everybody is a nobody
“Body percept” – identity, space and time
The vacuum tube, “the ballet of electrons”
Ted Carpenter on discovering ‘auditory space’
Relativity in
Space, Time & Architecture
Relativity in
Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters
Autobiography 1956: “Huge shift in the geography of perception and feeling”
Analogy of proper proportionality
Different kinds of “acoustic space”
Einstein
Relativity in
The Mechanical Bride
Field theory
Relativity and topology
Havelock on the interpretation of
all
epochs
Havelock on the ‘oral-literate equation’
Comparative philosophy – Masson-Oursel and Crookshank
McLuhan’s Topic #3 – Richards and ontology
Key texts #2 — SI/SC revisited as “cliché-probes”
Key texts #1 — “physiological and psychological balance”
The Beginnings of
Gutenberg Galaxy
2 – Carothers
Uttering, outering
McLuhan and Plato 10 – on the child and the child’s perception
McLuhan and Plato 4 – Narcissus
McLuhan and Plato 3 – the wild horses of passion
McLuhan and Plato 1 – Phaedrus and Er
Through the Vanishing Point 3 – Yeats
Language itself
GV
and
TT
p22 — Commentary 2: on “true strength”
GV
and
TT
p22
The Proscenium Arch (2)
Menippean satire 2