Category Archives: Topic

Lewis citing Hutton’s Aretino on calumny

Lewis on the fate of the West

Planet polluto, garbage apocalypse

The subjugation of the human spirit

Richards’ existential demand

Wakese 1: On the quintessential extraction of language

Heisenberg on ‘an ancient quarrel’

Riezler on ontology

Riezler on the situation of the world

Bohm on “the wrong turn”

Bohm on the spacetimes of consciousness

McLuhan interview on The City as Classroom

Verbi-Voco-Visual note on the chemistry of experience

Lindberg before and after Foundations

Cochrane on “an all-pervasive change in outlook” in Athens

John Lindberg

“Perpetuity of collective harmony” as judo

Heinrich Wölfflin and the laws of media

Rupert Lodge: Synthesis or Comparison?

What Havelock knew in 1938

Dialogue and ethics

Project 69: What I Learned On The Project

Tobias Dantzig

Ernst Gombrich

William Ivins

Adolf Hildebrand

Not a mode of being but a mode of processing

The American dream

Universal abdication of human motive

McLuhan’s new sciences: “only the authority of knowledge”

Havelock, McLuhan & the history of education

McLuhan reading Havelock’s Crucifixion

How it is

Virtual coinage

The world too much with us

Present depicted 60 years ago

What is the present?

Vatican Council as politics and business

The spectrum of forms

2017 foreseen in 1965

When is ‘before’?

The sensory thresholds of our being

Marchand on McLuhan on the Maelstrom

Effects before causes

The humble ditch

The family predicament

Lionizing and de-lionizing McLuhan

Percepts of existence

A sense of reality

Effect before cause in Gilson

The bubble of life in Joyce’s Portrait

Occultation of human thought

The Gorgon

Monstrosity

Espionage as the total human activity

The hijacked world

The show biz world

Predicting the present 65 years ago

McLuhan on 2017 in 1970

Carpenter on McLuhan’s poetic conversation

Patterson: “no interest in biases of space and time”

Dagwood and the ineradicable roots of our being

McLuhan’s realism 10: Pound on the ideograph

Writing and the Alphabet in Innis and McLuhan

McLuhan’s realism 9: Where Chesterton Comes In

McLuhan’s realism 8: Chesterton as practical mystic

McLuhan’s realism 7: “training in moral sensibility”

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

McLuhan’s realism 6: dialectics and erudition not enough

Nef on McLuhan’s proposal

The brother’s tale

Proposal to Robert Hutchins 1947

“The formula of Virgil’s poetic chemistry”

Innis and “the conditions of freedom of thought”

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

Giedion to Nef: “a young scholar of English literature”

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

Innis, McLuhan and “the “power of metamorphosis”

The “magical” essence of communication

Reuel Denney

I.A. Richards on Eric Havelock

Body percept 2

On the frontier everybody is a nobody

Parry and Lord in McLuhan

The Journey of Aeneas through the Waste Land

The “Vacuum of the Self”, the “Abced-minded”

Innis and McLuhan in 1936

The “Vacuum of the Self”

Menippean satire 4

The gigantomachia in Dostoevsky

Ted Carpenter on discovering ‘auditory space’

Relativity in Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters

Giedion – an “Author’s Note”

Einstein

Schafer — The Tuning of the World

Preface to The Mechanical Bride: “provisional affairs for apprehending reality”

Nihilism in Dostoevsky

Complexity or simplicity, theory or intuition?

Nihilism in Turgenev

Eliot’s ‘From Poe to Valéry’