Category Archives: Beginnings, thresholds

On the imbalance between physical and social science

Dobbs: Hand signals for the blind

Yeats’ rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem

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

Mimesis

Pre-tribal awareness

Solution lies in the problem

Multi-space dialogue in Greece

A whole new genus of sciences

McNamara’s band

3 types of space

Genitives, times and essential types

What was McLuhan up to?

Bacon and Vico

McLuhan on Vico

McLuhan versus The Prison House of Language 1

Plenary consciousness 2

St Kevin’s tub

Poetic vs Rhetorical Exegesis 2: a question of ontology

Poetic vs Rhetorical Exegesis 1

Pound’s Guide to Kulchur

Seneca

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

Optophone 1

Tis optophone which ontophanes

Innis on thought and its eclipse (PEMS 7)

The Electronic Revolution and the Undeveloped Countries of the Mind

McLuhan & Peterson: competing fundamental myths 1

Peterson: time or times?

Peterson and the fabled ‘thing in itself’

Yeats on the emotion of multitude

Nihilism stands at the door

Jung on “the energetics of the life process”

Statement on Culture and Technology

Garbage Apocalypse

Percept and concept 1

From world to worlds

Grammars of the Media

The goal of science 6/25/59

Chemistry of the interior landscape

The McLuhans move to Winnipeg

How communicate the presupposition to communication?

Shaw & the hurdles of communication

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

Bridges of spiritual and mental states

Early McLuhan on film

Culture Without Literacy

Bacon in McLuhan 7 (Lewis 2)

Verlinde and the aversion to philosophy

McLuhan on “dichotomizing” in 1944

Heine on ‘Plato’ and ‘Aristotle’

Breakthrough insight at “the level of essence”

Voegelin and the question of “intelligible units”

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

Planet polluto, garbage apocalypse

Wakese 1: On the quintessential extraction of language

Bohm on “the wrong turn”

Rupert Lodge: Synthesis or Comparison?

What is the present?

The spectrum of forms

The sensory thresholds of our being

Body percept 2

Innis and Havelock – 1930 and beyond