Category Archives: Katabasis

Reborn from ruin

McLuhan’s contributions

Dilworth: McLuhan on The Waste Land

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

The representative ferment

Minotaur

DNA

McLuhan & Peterson: competing fundamental myths 2

“Anybody can now be made famous”

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

Innis multiplying Hugo (PEMS 6)

Innis on limitation (PEMS 5)

Easterbrook on Innis and McLuhan in 1960

Peterson on Eliot’s knot

Birthpains of the new: “an arduous metamorphosis”

Eisenstein 1

Bacon in McLuhan 5 (‘Francis Bacon, Ancient or Modern?’)

Past the vanishing point

Wakese 3: “A word is a single shot of a process”

Bohm on the spacetimes of consciousness

Multi-levels of simultaneous presentation

The keyboards of existence

Human being: navigator between worlds

Eliot on Scylla and Charybdis

Scylla and Charybdis 1

Blackout

What is the present?

Jung

Archetypes as inherently plural

X-ray awareness, the inside story

Vivisection

Knowing effects before they occur

Marchand on McLuhan on the Maelstrom

The incomprehensible mechanism

The Maelstrom in Mallarmé’s Coup de Dés

Effect before cause in Gilson

Bellum-Pax-Bellum

The brother’s tale

Ms. Found In A Bottle – Edgar Poe

“The formula of Virgil’s poetic chemistry”

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

“Great change” in Descent into the Maelstrom

A Descent into the Maelstrom – Edgar Poe

Vortex atoms in 19th century physics

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

On the frontier everybody is a nobody

“Body percept” – identity, space and time

The Journey of Aeneas through the Waste Land

Abcedmindedness

Eliot’s ‘From Poe to Valéry’

Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner and Poe’s Maelstrom

The Road to Xanadu

Autobiography – the experience of the second conversion

McLuhan’s second conversion

A “trick of analysis” in the Maelstrom

McLuhan on Poe’s Maelstrom

Cleanth Brooks on the Maelstrom

Richards and Havelock before 1947

Babel