Category Archives: Language

McLuhan and Aristotle 5 (dualisms in 1944)

Frye’s References to McLuhan in his Collected Works

Malinowski’s “new science” of culture (part 2)

Malinowski’s “new science” of culture (part 1)

Laws of the Media in the 1970s

First words on the moon

McLuhan’s contributions

Dobbs: Hand signals for the blind

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

McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin’s Joyce, chap 5)

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

McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin’s Joyce, chap 2)

McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin’s Joyce, chap 1)

“Arrest in time” in McLuhan

“Arrest in time” in Lewis

Mimesis in Laws of Media

Wyndham Lewis, Paleface, comments

Paleface (Introduction to Part ii)

Mimesis

Crump’s Epyllion

The spectacle of redemption

McLuhan and Plato 12 — Cratylus

McLuhan replays Elsie

McLuhan on Dali TV Guide cover

Ear-view mirror

Hominization of the planet 2

Hominization of the planet 1

A whole new genus of sciences

Ian Hacking and the Toronto School of Communication

3 types of space

Genitives, times and essential types

Bacon and Vico

McLuhan on Vico

McDonald on McLuhan’s utopianism

McDonald on Humboldt and McLuhan

McLuhan versus The Prison House of Language 1

WSCM 5: Watson Kirkconnell

WSCM 4: Tom Easterbrook

Havelock in 1940

Wright on matter and spirit in 1917

Havelock in db of classical scholars

MacLevy’s Figurama

Poetic vs Rhetorical Exegesis 2: a question of ontology

Poetic vs Rhetorical Exegesis 1

Seneca

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

Optophone 2

Illusion and Reality

McLuhan’s “secret societies” problem

Innis multiplying Hugo (PEMS 6)

Hugo on Gutenberg in 1831: the second tower of Babel

Innis on limitation (PEMS 5)

‘The Later Innis’ and quantum mechanics

Innis on the state of the world in 2021 (PEMS 3)

Peterson on Eliot’s knot

Jordan Peterson on the hero

Meaning as an arrow

Translating McLuhan to McLuhan

Citadel of inclusive awareness

Dating key terms

Burroughs on ‘Literary Techniques’

McLuhan reads Burroughs

Statement on Culture and Technology

Garbage Apocalypse

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1973-1974

“Understanding is not a point of view”

The goal of science 6/25/59

Charge of the light brigade

Richard Hughes on media and the senses

Chemistry of the interior landscape

McLuhan on phenomenology in LOM

How communicate the presupposition to communication?

McKeon, Gilson and Rorty

McLuhan, Hayakawa and Allison

McKeon’s 1935 Trivium essay 2 (the trivial debate)

Eisenstein 5 (the time of ‘epoch’)

McLuhan to Innis 1951 (3)

Culture Without Literacy

Lewis in McLuhan 3 (‘Nihilism Exposed’)

Bacon in McLuhan 7 (Lewis 2)

Lewis in McLuhan 1 (‘Lemuel in Lilliput’)

Wakese 4: Swift’s engine of communicativeness

Bacon in McLuhan 6 (‘Medieval Grammar as the Basis of Bacon’s Novum Organum‘)

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

Bacon in McLuhan 4 (‘Printing and Social Change’)

Bacon in McLuhan 3 (Gutenberg Galaxy)

Bacon in McLuhan 2 (‘Bacon’s Patristic Inheritance’)

Bacon in McLuhan 1 (Nashe thesis)

Quantum communications (the implications of essential plurality)

On nisus

Vertical and horizontal times in Saussure and Nevitt

Lodge, Richards and Schiller’s Aesthetic Letters

“Ancient quarrel” in Lewis

“Ancient quarrel” and its synonyms (1950’s)

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

Wakese 2: McLuhan on the “potencies” of language

Lodge in W.O. Mitchell’s Who Has Seen the Wind

Richards’ existential demand

On the “necessary conjoint” of Platonists and Aristotelians

Wakese 1: On the quintessential extraction of language