Category Archives: 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”

Autobiography – beginning to teach in 1936

Innis, McLuhan and “the “power of metamorphosis”

The “magical” essence of communication

Reuel Denney

What nobody knows

I.A. Richards on Eric Havelock

“Body percept” – identity, space and time

Theuth in Plato’s Philebus

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

The vacuum tube, “the ballet of electrons”

The question of unity

Pre-Christian Logos

What is coherence?

From vision to ‘vision’

Relativity and topology

“The main question” in Valéry

Hopkins: peace allows the death of it

Richards and McLuhan – The Windhover

Richards – the trivium, the eddy and the 2 sides of the mirror

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

Autobiography 1930

Sense and senselessness 2 — Wittgenstein on language and language learning

Sense and senselessness 1 — Some sense?

Subjective and objective genitive

McLuhan and Plato 6 – Theuth

McLuhan and Plato 4 – Narcissus

McLuhan and Plato 2 – When is myth?

Through the Vanishing Point 3 – Yeats

“Language itself” 2 – Wallace Stevens

Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters 2: What Mallarmé saw

Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters 1

The Waters of Intelligibility – Mis-taking McLuhan

Language itself

Why Science?

The Proscenium Arch (1)

Chrystall on time 2

Centre and Margin 3

Centre and Margin 1

Chrystall on time 1

McLuhan’s language 2 (Lamberti)

McLuhan’s language

Media as atomic structures

RVM or through the looking glass?