Category Archives: Language

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

Wright on matter and spirit in 1917

Havelock in db of classical scholars

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 (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

McLuhan’s 1963 Dalhousie book review

Lodge, Richards and Schiller’s Aesthetic Letters

“Ancient quarrel” in Lewis

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

“Ancient quarrel” and its synonyms (1940’s)

Media definition

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

Riezler on possibility

Riezler on ontology

Poetry as circuit control

John Lindberg

“Perpetuity of collective harmony” as judo

Kenneth Boulding

Multi-levels of simultaneous presentation

McLuhan’s new sciences: “only the authority of knowledge”

Havelock, McLuhan & the history of education

Human being: navigator between worlds

Eliot on Scylla and Charybdis

What is the present?

Jung

X-ray awareness, the inside story

The Maelstrom in Mallarmé’s Coup de Dés

Effect before cause in Gilson

Voices in Dubliners and A Portrait

The New Criticism and plural times

The question of the “objective correlative”

Language and experience

Proposal to Robert Hutchins 1947

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

McLuhan’s realism 1: St Louis 1940

“The formula of Virgil’s poetic chemistry”