Category Archives: Exploring ignorance

McLuhan and Kenner (the plotline of Dublin’s Joyce)

Pre-tribal awareness

Solution lies in the problem

Dali TV Guide interview: watch TV upside down

DNA

McLuhan’s communication problem

A whole new genus of sciences

McLuhan & Peterson: competing fundamental myths 2

Escape from the cul-de-sac

Bacon and Vico

McLuhan on Vico

Olympus, Pelion and Ossa in Hamlet

Elsie on the move

St Kevin’s tub

Poetic vs Rhetorical Exegesis 1

“Anybody can now be made famous”

Innis multiplying Hugo (PEMS 6)

Innis on limitation (PEMS 5)

Peterson on Eliot’s knot

McLuhan & Peterson: competing fundamental myths 1

Peterson: time or times?

Zarathustra: Listen to me even with your eyes!

Jordan Peterson on the hero

Jordan Peterson and Marshall McLuhan

Nihilism stands at the door

Jung on the interior landscape

Jung on “the energetics of the life process”

Harry Skornia, peace activist

The Law of Media 1

The Law of Media 2

Comments on Elder’s comments on Barilli 2

Percept and concept 1

Pugen’s time

Ignatov on Maritain on Bergson 2

McLuhan to Skornia 6/7/59: “We can’t assume that we understand media already!”

McLuhan to Skornia 6/4/59

From world to worlds

Shaw & the hurdles of communication

Epoch: Dostoevsky

Eisenstein 1

Beyond the cultural monad

Bacon in McLuhan 7 (Lewis 2)

McLuhan on “dichotomizing” in 1944

Jung on Schiller 1

Past the vanishing point

Richards’ existential demand

Wakese 1: On the quintessential extraction of language

John Lindberg

Project 69: What I Learned On The Project

Blackout

What is the present?

Déjà vu

The sensory thresholds of our being

The incomprehensible mechanism

The brother’s tale

McLuhan’s realism 3: against perceptual engineering

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

“The formula of Virgil’s poetic chemistry”

McLuhan and Plato 15: Poe’s Maelstrom and the Phaedo

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

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

Innis, McLuhan and “the “power of metamorphosis”

The “magical” essence of communication

On the frontier everybody is a nobody

“Body percept” – identity, space and time

Abcedmindedness

The “Vacuum of the Self”, the “Abced-minded”

The “Vacuum of the Self”

McLuhan vs the Walkathon in 1931

Preface to The Mechanical Bride: “provisional affairs for apprehending reality”

McLuhan on Poe’s Maelstrom

Havelock on the interpretation of all epochs

McLuhan’s Topic #2 – confronting nihilism

Autobiography – encountering Alfred Adler

“Pouring [out] is also fulfillment, not emptying but filling”

Key texts #2 — SI/SC revisited as “cliché­-probes”

Babel

Sense and senselessness 1 — Some sense?

McLuhan and Plato 11- on the perception of the child (obj gen)

McLuhan and Plato 10 – on the child and the child’s perception

McLuhan and Plato 9 – on the plain of oblivion

Autobiography 1962

McLuhan and Plato 4 – Narcissus

McLuhan and Plato 3 – the wild horses of passion

McLuhan and Plato 2 – When is myth?

Through the Vanishing Point 3 – Yeats

“Language itself” 2 – Wallace Stevens

Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters 3 – On the existence of knowledge

Through the vanishing point 2 – Shakespeare

Through the vanishing point 1 – Milton and Pope

Exploring ignorance 12 – “mechanization of total human gesture”

Exploring ignorance (11) – Mystical Unity?

Exploring ignorance (10a) – Rembrandt

Exploring ignorance (10) – the dialogue of being

Exploring ignorance (9) – The Concept of Dread

Exploring ignorance 8a – Luminaid

Exploring Ignorance (8) – “Nothing completely packaged”

Exploring ignorance (7) – Humpty Dumpty

Exploring ignorance (6)

Exploring ignorance (5)