Category Archives: Topic

McLuhan on media science in 1958

Peterson on Eliot’s knot

McLuhan & Peterson: competing fundamental myths 1

Peterson: time or times?

Peterson and the fabled ‘thing in itself’

Yeats on the emotion of multitude

Jordan Peterson on the hero

Jordan Peterson and Marshall McLuhan

Point and circumference in 1939

Nihilism stands at the door

Meaning as an arrow

Medium in America and Cosmic Man

Taking flight

Jung on praeceptores mundi

Jung on “the energetics of the life process”

Translating McLuhan to McLuhan

Burroughs on ‘Literary Techniques’

Statement on Culture and Technology

Garbage Apocalypse

Harry Skornia, peace activist

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1963

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1964

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1965

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1966

Patterns of Literary Criticism 

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1967

Porter in UT President’s Report 1968

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1969

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1971

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1970

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1972

McLuhan’s “flush-profile” review of Frye

Comments on Elder’s comments on Barilli 2

Comments on Elder’s comments on Barilli

The Art of Being Ruled (de Kerckhove 3)

“A genus of homicidal puppets, sure enough” (de Kerckhove 2)

de Kerckhove’s Digital Transformation 1

Percept and concept 1

Pugen’s time

Ignatov on Maritain on Bergson 2

Marshall foresees Zoom

McLuhan to Skornia 6/7/59: “We can’t assume that we understand media already!”

McLuhan to Skornia 6/4/59

McLuhan to Skornia early June 1959

Media Log II

Report on Washington Educational TV conference (May 1958)

McLuhan to Skornia 1/25/59 (Cassirer)

What is the basis of prediction?

McLuhan NAEB presentation 9/23/59

Chemistry of the interior landscape 2

“Understanding is not a point of view”

Und so weiter! (the gap)

From world to worlds

McLuhan on Burroughs

Grammars of the Media

Defending the print medium in 1958

The goal of science 6/25/59

Becker on NDEA Title VII funding

Marshall, Harry and Baudelaire

Charge of the light brigade

McLuhan and Father R.C. Williams

Chemistry of the interior landscape

First contact with the NAEB

The McLuhans move to Winnipeg

Herb McLuhan in Maclean’s

How communicate the presupposition to communication?

Shaw & the hurdles of communication

McKeon’s 1935 Trivium essay 2 (the trivial debate)

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

Epoch: Dostoevsky

Bridges of spiritual and mental states

Early McLuhan on film

Beyond the cultural monad

Culture Without Literacy

‘A Federal Offense!’

Lewis in McLuhan 3 (‘Nihilism Exposed’)

Bacon in McLuhan 7 (Lewis 2)

Lewis in McLuhan 1 (‘Lemuel in Lilliput’)

Hayakawa and Alfred Korzybski

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

The gigantomachia in GG from Rabelais

Bacon in McLuhan 2 (‘Bacon’s Patristic Inheritance’)

The essential plurality of the forms of being

Verlinde and the aversion to philosophy

Gigantomachia, triangular duel, siamese triplets

Taking Lodge to Cambridge and beyond

McLuhan and Lodge (‘Philosophy and Education’)

Bradbrook’s School of Night and the dynamics of experience

McLuhan on “dichotomizing” in 1944

Heine on ‘Plato’ and ‘Aristotle’

McLuhan’s course books

“If it can be done, it must be done.”

The “new level” of art

The Toronto school and Schiller

Lodge, Richards and Schiller’s Aesthetic Letters

Schiller’s Aesthetic Letters and nihilism

Breakthrough insight at “the level of essence”

Voegelin and the question of “intelligible units”

The medium is the message in 1958

McLuhan and Voegelin 1953