Category Archives: The main question

Verlinde and the aversion to philosophy

Verlinde: Physics in the Information Age

Gigantomachia, triangular duel, siamese triplets

McLuhan and Lodge (‘Philosophy and Education’)

McLuhan on “dichotomizing” in 1944

The subjugation of the human spirit

Effect before cause in Gilson

Writing and the Alphabet in Innis and McLuhan

McLuhan and the “ceaseless quest for the inclusive image”

McLuhan’s realism 5: Cambridge 1934-1935

McLuhan’s realism 3: against perceptual engineering

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

Innis, McLuhan and “the “power of metamorphosis”

Abcedmindedness

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

Sigfried Giedion — A Faculty of Interrelations

“The main question” in Valéry

“The main question” in Dostoevsky

Jackson Knight on “the main question”

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