Category Archives: Making and Matching

Taking flight

Media Log II

“A medium is the sum total of all its impact”

Shaw & the hurdles of communication

Eisenstein 4 (1951)

Eisenstein 2 (Zavattini)

“Food for the mind is like food for the body”

Lodge, Richards and Schiller’s Aesthetic Letters

Bohm on making and matching

Ernst Gombrich

Effect before cause in Gilson

McLuhan’s realism 3: against perceptual engineering

McLuhan’s realism 1: St Louis 1940

The put-on

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

McLuhan and Plato 1: strange prisoners like ourselves

Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters 3 – On the existence of knowledge

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

Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters 1

GV and TT p22 — Commentary 3: “McLuhan is a charlatan”

GV and TT p22 — Commentary 2: on “true strength”

GV and TT p22 — Commentary 1: “the great quantum leap”

Peace in difference

Exploring ignorance (7) – Humpty Dumpty