Category Archives: Ontological/ontic

Between gods and their times

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

Contesting twofolds in Egypt and Greece

McLuhan’s contributions

Yeats’ rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem

Wyndham Lewis, Paleface, comments

Mimesis

Archimedes

3 types of space

Genitives, times and essential types

McLuhan on Vico

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

Olympus, Pelion and Ossa in Hamlet

McLuhan and Plato 8½ – Gigantomachia in the Symposium

McLuhan versus The Prison House of Language 1

McLuhan and Winters 2

Plenary consciousness 2

Connubium of Being 3

Connubium of Being 2

Connubium of Being 1

St Kevin’s tub

Poetic vs Rhetorical Exegesis 2: a question of ontology

Poetic vs Rhetorical Exegesis 1

Optophone 3: “carry everywhere the reflection of its delight”

Tis optophone which ontophanes

Peterson on Eliot’s knot

McLuhan & Peterson: competing fundamental myths 1

Peterson: time or times?

Jordan Peterson on the hero

Chemistry of the interior landscape

McLuhan on phenomenology in LOM

McLuhan on phenomenology in 1978

Herb McLuhan in Maclean’s

McKeon’s 1935 Trivium essay 2 (the trivial debate)

McKeon’s 1935 Trivium essay 1 (what is philosophy?)

Bacon in McLuhan 7 (Lewis 2)

The essential plurality of the forms of being

Verlinde and the aversion to philosophy

Quantum communications (the implications of essential plurality)

On nisus

Gigantomachia, triangular duel, siamese triplets

Aesthetic Pattern (singular) in Keats’ Odes

Lévi-Strauss on method in anthropology

“Ancient quarrel” and its synonyms (1940’s)

Heisenberg on possibility

Ontology and physics

Bohm and Hiley on “active information”

Riezler on possibility

Riezler on ontology

Rupert Lodge: Synthesis or Comparison?

Dialogue and ethics

Marchand on McLuhan on the Maelstrom

A sense of reality

John Watson’s heritage in political economics and communications

Dagwood and the ineradicable roots of our being

Writing and the Alphabet in Innis and McLuhan

Nef on McLuhan’s proposal

McLuhan’s realism 5: Cambridge 1934-1935

McLuhan’s realism 2: “the real things, exactly as they are”

The “Vacuum of the Self”

Ontology and epistemology

Einstein

Sigfried Giedion — A Faculty of Interrelations

The put-on

Elsie McLuhan on the Mastery of Life

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

Jackson Knight on “the main question”

McLuhan’s Topic #4: the secret songs that orchestrate the universe

McLuhan’s Topic #3 – Richards and ontology

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

Babel

Sense and senselessness 1 — Some sense?

McLuhan and Plato 1: strange prisoners like ourselves

McLuhan and Plato 11- on the perception of the child (obj gen)

McLuhan and Plato 10 – on the child and the child’s perception

McLuhan and Plato 9 – on the plain of oblivion

McLuhan and Plato 8 – Gigantomachia

McLuhan and Plato 7 – “a poise between”

McLuhan and Plato 1 – Phaedrus and Er

Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters 1

The Waters of Intelligibility

Language itself

The Proscenium Arch (3)

Peace in difference

Mis-taking McLuhan (Kroker 2)

Exploring ignorance (9) – The Concept of Dread

Exploring Ignorance (8) – “Nothing completely packaged”

Exploring ignorance (6)

Exploring ignorance (5)

Exploring ignorance (4)