McLuhan's New Sciences
When we push our paradigms back, we get "history"; when we push them forward, we get "science". (Take Today, 15)
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On the opening of a new domain
McLuhan’s new sciences: “only the authority of knowledge”
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Bias of Communication
Laws of the Media in the 1970s
Yeats’ rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem
Paleface
(Introduction to Part ii)
Pre-tribal awareness
Dali Visage paranoïaque
A whole new genus of sciences
3 types of space
Genitives, times and essential types
What was McLuhan up to?
Escape from the cul-de-sac
Bacon and Vico
McLuhan and Winters 2
Optophone 1
McLuhan’s “secret societies” problem
Innis on thought and its eclipse (
PEMS
7)
Innis multiplying Hugo (
PEMS
6)
Easterbrook on Innis and McLuhan in 1960
Garbage Apocalypse
Harry Skornia, peace activist
Report on Washington Educational TV conference (May 1958)
McLuhan to Skornia 1/25/59 (Cassirer)
McLuhan NAEB presentation 9/23/59
Grammars of the Media
McKeon’s 1935 Trivium essay 2 (the trivial debate)
Bridges of spiritual and mental states
‘A Federal Offense!’
Richards’ existential demand
What Havelock knew in 1938
Tobias Dantzig
William Ivins
McLuhan’s new sciences: “only the authority of knowledge”
When is ‘before’?
The sensory thresholds of our being
Effect before cause in Gilson
McLuhan’s realism 7: “training in moral sensibility”
Proposal to Robert Hutchins 1947
Innis, McLuhan and “the “power of metamorphosis”
The “magical” essence of communication
Parry and Lord in McLuhan
Relativity in
Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters
Innis and Havelock – 1930 and beyond
Havelock, Innis and Richards in 1947
Richards on the media 4
Richards on the media 1
GV
and
TT
p22 — Commentary 2: on “true strength”
McLuhan to Innis 1951 (1)
Plenary judgment
The ‘Values Discussion Group’ of 1949
The bias of communication
‘Limitation’ in
Take Today
Media as atomic structures