Category Archives: Theme

Vortex atoms in 19th century physics

Giedion on simultaneity

McLuhan and Beckett: Through the vanishing point by way of neither

Autobiography – beginning to teach in 1936

Innis, McLuhan and “the “power of metamorphosis”

The “magical” essence of communication

Reuel Denney

What nobody knows

I.A. Richards on Eric Havelock

Body percept 2

On the frontier everybody is a nobody

Tradition and the Individual Talent

“Body percept” – identity, space and time

Theuth in Plato’s Philebus

Parry and Lord in McLuhan

The Journey of Aeneas through the Waste Land

Abcedmindedness

The “Vacuum of the Self”, the “Abced-minded”

Encountering Maritain in 1934

The vacuum tube, “the ballet of electrons”

The “Vacuum of the Self”

Theall on Innis, Havelock and McLuhan

The question of unity

Pre-Christian Logos

Ted Carpenter on discovering ‘auditory space’

McLuhan & Williams on discovering ‘auditory space’

Relativity in Space, Time & Architecture

Space, Time & Architecture and McLuhan

The dateline 1

Relativity in Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters

Autobiography 1956: “Huge shift in the geography of perception and feeling”

Ontology and epistemology

Analogy of proper proportionality

Giedion – an “Author’s Note”

Minkowski in Giedion

“New Media Changing Spatial Orientation Of Self”

Explorations and Epilogue

Different kinds of “acoustic space”

Einstein

Relativity in The Mechanical Bride

Field theory

The mosaic in A Faculty of Interrelations

Schafer — The Tuning of the World

Sigfried Giedion — A Faculty of Interrelations

What is coherence?

From vision to ‘vision’

Hayakawa — The Revision of Vision

Relativity and topology

W.O. Mitchell and the quest to “embody insight”

The put-on

“The main question” in Valéry

Elsie McLuhan on the Mastery of Life

McLuhan vs the Walkathon in 1931

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

“The main question” in Dostoevsky

Complexity or simplicity, theory or intuition?

McLuhan and Heinrich Hertz 1

Deutsch on Christian complementarity

The Maelstrom in Dostoevsky

Jackson Knight on “the main question”

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

Richards and Havelock before 1947

Havelock on the interpretation of all epochs

Havelock on the ‘oral-literate equation’

Innis to McLuhan January 12, 1952

Innis and Havelock – 1930 and beyond

Richards on the media 5

Hopkins: peace allows the death of it

Richards and McLuhan: essential differences

Richards and McLuhan – The Windhover

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

Richards – the trivium, the eddy and the 2 sides of the mirror

Comparative philosophy – Masson-Oursel and Crookshank

McLuhan’s Topic #3 – Richards and ontology

McLuhan’s Topic #2 – confronting nihilism

Autobiography – encountering Alfred Adler

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

Key texts #2 — SI/SC revisited as “cliché­-probes”

Key texts #1 — “physiological and psychological balance”

Autobiography 1930

Autobiography — Richards and Empson

Babel

Sense and senselessness 2 — Wittgenstein on language and language learning

Sense and senselessness 1 — Some sense?

Subjective and objective genitive 2

The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 2 – Carothers

Uttering, outering

McLuhan and Plato 1: strange prisoners like ourselves

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

Subjective and objective genitive

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

McLuhan and Plato 9 – on the plain of oblivion

Autobiography 1962