Category Archives: Light and Dark

Contesting twofolds in Egypt and Greece

DNA

McLuhan on Vico

Thoth: “the third ends the discord of the two”

Typhon/Minotaur/Dionysus parallels

Moholy-Nagy 1 (Giedion on M-N in 1936)

Optophone 2

McLuhan’s “secret societies” problem

Easterbrook on Innis and McLuhan in 1960

Peterson on Eliot’s knot

Charge of the light brigade

Lewis in McLuhan 3 (‘Nihilism Exposed’)

Past the vanishing point

Wakese 1: On the quintessential extraction of language

Multi-levels of simultaneous presentation

Human being: navigator between worlds

Blackout

The spectrum of forms

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

On the frontier everybody is a nobody

Ted Carpenter on discovering ‘auditory space’

Analogy of proper proportionality

“The main question” in Valéry

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

“The main question” in Dostoevsky

Jackson Knight on “the main question”

A “trick of analysis” in the Maelstrom

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

Key texts #1 — “physiological and psychological balance”

McLuhan and Plato 1: strange prisoners like ourselves

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

Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters – Introduction

Through the vanishing point 2 – Shakespeare

Through the vanishing point 1 – Milton and Pope

Mallarmé: “a competition for the foundation of the popular modern Poem”

On “things most common”

Exploring ignorance (10a) – Rembrandt

Exploring ignorance (9) – The Concept of Dread

Exploring ignorance 8a – Luminaid

Exploring Ignorance (8) – “Nothing completely packaged”

Exploring ignorance (2)