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Between gods and their times

Malinowski’s “new science” of culture (part 2)

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

On the imbalance between physical and social science

Laws of the Media in the 1970s

Contesting twofolds in Egypt and Greece

Reborn from ruin

First words on the moon

McLuhan’s contributions

Dobbs: Hand signals for the blind

Dobbs: McLuhan on copy and original

Dobbs: McLuhan on how much truth you got

Yeats’ rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem

Dilworth: McLuhan on The Waste Land

McLuhan and Kenner (the plotline of Dublin’s Joyce)

Chaos and confusion in 1948

McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin’s Joyce, chap 5)

McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin’s Joyce, chap 2)

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

Faculty of Interrelation in Toronto

“Arrest in time” in Lewis

McLuhan and Plato 14: “nothing exists in itself”

Evolution: shift from biology to technology

Wyndham Lewis, Paleface, comments

Paleface (Introduction to Part ii)

Mimesis

McLuhan and Plato 13: epyllion

Predicting the present

Crump’s Epyllion

The spectacle of redemption

Pre-tribal awareness

Wheeler and McLuhan

Going quantum

Solution lies in the problem

Dali Visage paranoïaque

Pasteur

Dali TV Guide interview: watch TV upside down

Ear-view mirror

DNA

Archimedes

Multi-space dialogue in Greece

Through the vanishing point with Nietzsche

McLuhan’s communication problem

A whole new genus of sciences

McLuhan & Peterson: competing fundamental myths 2

McNamara’s band

Future of the human species

McLuhan’s advice to Leary

3 types of space

Genitives, times and essential types

What was McLuhan up to?

Escape from the cul-de-sac

Bacon and Vico

McLuhan on Vico

McDonald on McLuhan’s utopianism

McDonald on Humboldt and McLuhan

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

WSCM 6: Reading Wright

WSCM 5: Watson Kirkconnell

WSCM 4: Tom Easterbrook

WSCM anteroom: peace in the global village?

Havelock in 1940

Portrait of Rupert Clendon Lodge

Wright on matter and spirit in 1917

Havelock in db of classical scholars

The earwig when bisected fights itself

Typhon/Minotaur/Dionysus parallels

McLuhan and Winters 2

McLuhan and Winters 1

Plenary consciousness 2

Moholy-Nagy 1 (Giedion on M-N in 1936)

Classroom without walls

Classroom TV (1956)

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

Pound’s Guide to Kulchur

Seneca

“Anybody can now be made famous”

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

Optophone 2

Optophone 1

Tis optophone which ontophanes

Illusion and Reality

Voegelin letters background

McLuhan’s “secret societies” problem

Innis on thought and its eclipse (PEMS 7)

Innis multiplying Hugo (PEMS 6)

Innis on limitation (PEMS 5)

Innis on the eclipse of truth (PEMS 4)

Innis on the state of the world in 2021 (PEMS 3)

Innis on media revolutions (PEMS 2)

The Electronic Revolution and the Undeveloped Countries of the Mind

Innis citing Trollope on CV-building

McLuhan reads Innis (PEMS 1)