Category Archives: Maelstrom

The vortex of the living community

McDonald on Humboldt and McLuhan

Mac to Lewis, 1944

Plenary consciousness (McLuhan and Hegel)

Peterson on Eliot’s knot

Maelstrom in Ertrog and Yeats

McLuhan on Burroughs

Epoch: Dostoevsky

The keyboards of existence

Human being: navigator between worlds

Scylla and Charybdis 1

What is the present?

X-ray awareness, the inside story

Vivisection

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

Dagwood and the ineradicable roots of our being

Encountering Poe

The brother’s tale

Ms. Found In A Bottle – Edgar Poe

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

“Body percept” – identity, space and time

The Maelstrom in Dostoevsky

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