Category Archives: Original complexity

Between gods and their times

McLuhan and Aristotle 4 (Synthesis between Plato and Aristotle?)

McLuhan and Aristotle 2 (Maritain’s Introduction)

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

McLuhan’s contributions

Yeats’ rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem

Extra sensory perception

Solution lies in the problem

Inclusive consciousness

Hominization of the planet 2

3 types of space

The entire range of human expressiveness

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

Plenary consciousness 2

Connubium of Being 2

Connubium of Being 1

End/beginning of FW

Poetic vs Rhetorical Exegesis 2: a question of ontology

Seneca

Tactility

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

Optophone 2

Tis optophone which ontophanes

Innis on thought and its eclipse (PEMS 7)

Innis multiplying Hugo (PEMS 6)

Innis on the eclipse of truth (PEMS 4)

Innis on media revolutions (PEMS 2)

Peterson on Eliot’s knot

McLuhan & Peterson: competing fundamental myths 1

Peterson: time or times?

Yeats on the emotion of multitude

Jordan Peterson on the hero

Point and circumference in 1939

Taking flight

Jung on praeceptores mundi

Garbage Apocalypse

Ignatov on Maritain on Bergson 1

McLuhan on Whitehead

McLuhan on dialogue February 1959

McLuhan to Skornia 1/25/59 (Cassirer)

Psycho-dynamics (the medium is the message)

On the subliminal 1

Und so weiter! (the gap)

Defending the print medium in 1958

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?)

Eisenstein 5 (the time of ‘epoch’)

Bridges of spiritual and mental states

Analog and digital times

Bacon in McLuhan 7 (Lewis 2)

Bacon in McLuhan 5 (‘Francis Bacon, Ancient or Modern?’)

Bacon in McLuhan 3 (Gutenberg Galaxy)

The essential plurality of the forms of being

Verlinde and the aversion to philosophy

Verlinde: Physics in the Information Age

Quantum communications (the implications of essential plurality)

On nisus

Vertical and horizontal times in Saussure and Nevitt

Gigantomachia, triangular duel, siamese triplets

McLuhan and Lodge (‘Philosophy and Education’)

Bradbrook’s School of Night and the dynamics of experience

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

Aesthetic Pattern (singular) in Keats’ Odes

The Keats essay from 1943

Jung on Schiller 2

Jung on Schiller 1

The Toronto school and Schiller

Lodge, Richards and Schiller’s Aesthetic Letters

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

Planet polluto, garbage apocalypse

Wakese 2: McLuhan on the “potencies” of language

3 forms of Being in Havelock’s Crucifixion

On the “necessary conjoint” of Platonists and Aristotelians

Heisenberg on possibility

Ontology and physics

Riezler on possibility

Bohm on the ratio of ratios

“Perpetuity of collective harmony” as judo

Rupert Lodge: Synthesis or Comparison?

Dialogue and ethics

Richard L Meier and “substitutability”

Heinrich Wölfflin

The keyboards of existence

Archetypes as inherently plural

The spectrum of forms

Knowing effects before they occur

Percepts of existence

Monstrosity

From the unconscious to the conscious to consciousness of the unconscious

Dagwood and the ineradicable roots of our being

McLuhan’s realism 10: Pound on the ideograph

Writing and the Alphabet in Innis and McLuhan

McLuhan’s times

McLuhan and the “ceaseless quest for the inclusive image”