Category Archives: Nihilism

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

Wyndham Lewis, Paleface, comments

Through the vanishing point with Nietzsche

McLuhan & Peterson: competing fundamental myths 2

Plenary consciousness 2

Innis multiplying Hugo (PEMS 6)

Innis on limitation (PEMS 5)

Nihilism stands at the door

Ignatov on Maritain on Bergson 2

McLuhan on Burroughs

Charge of the light brigade

Lewis in McLuhan 3 (‘Nihilism Exposed’)

Bacon in McLuhan 4 (‘Printing and Social Change’)

Verlinde and the aversion to philosophy

Schiller’s Aesthetic Letters and nihilism

Riezler on ontology

Riezler on the situation of the world

Bohm on the spacetimes of consciousness

Rupert Lodge: Synthesis or Comparison?

Virtual coinage

The world too much with us

Effects before causes

A sense of reality

The bubble of life in Joyce’s Portrait

Occultation of human thought

The Gorgon

McLuhan’s realism 8: Chesterton as practical mystic

Lewis in 1943: “The Frontiers of Art or the Cultural Melting Pot”

Nef on McLuhan’s proposal

The brother’s tale

Innis and “the conditions of freedom of thought”

The bubble of life in Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Havelock and Innis

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

Innis, McLuhan and “the “power of metamorphosis”

On the frontier everybody is a nobody

The “Vacuum of the Self”

Schafer — The Tuning of the World

Nihilism in Dostoevsky

Complexity or simplicity, theory or intuition?

Nihilism in Turgenev

Eliot’s ‘From Poe to Valéry’

A “trick of analysis” in the Maelstrom

Hopkins: peace allows the death of it

McLuhan’s Topic #2 – confronting nihilism

Autobiography 1962