Category Archives: Making and Matching

Lodge’s Questioning Mind

Three for two will do

Malinowski’s “new science” of culture (part 1)

McLuhan’s contributions

McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin’s Joyce, chap 3)

McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin’s Joyce, chap 1)

Euclid and effect

McLuhan and Plato 14: “nothing exists in itself”

Mimesis in Laws of Media

Wyndham Lewis, Paleface, comments

Mimesis

Simulation

McLuhan and Plato 12 — Cratylus

Ear-view mirror

McDonald on Humboldt and McLuhan

Connubium of Being 1

Pound’s Guide to Kulchur

Illusion and Reality

McLuhan’s “secret societies” problem

‘The Later Innis’ and quantum mechanics

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

Wakese 2: McLuhan on the “potencies” of language

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