Category Archives: Topic

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’

The Road to Xanadu

McLuhan’s second conversion

A “trick of analysis” in the Maelstrom

Innis to McLuhan February 26, 1951

Richards and Havelock before 1947

Innis and Havelock – 1930 and beyond

Havelock, Innis and Richards in 1947

McLuhan to Richards July 1968

Richards on the media 4

Richards on the media 1

Hopkins: peace allows the death of it

McLuhan’s Topic #2 – confronting nihilism

Key texts #2 — SI/SC revisited as “cliché­-probes”

Key texts #1 — “physiological and psychological balance”

Babel

The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 2 – Carothers

McLuhan and Plato 10 – on the child and the child’s perception

Autobiography 1962

McLuhan and Plato 8 – Gigantomachia

Ellul’s Propaganda

McLuhan and Plato 6 – Theuth

Through the vanishing point 2 – Shakespeare

The Waters of Intelligibility – Mis-taking McLuhan

GV and TT p22 — Commentary 3: “McLuhan is a charlatan”

GV and TT p22 — Commentary 2: on “true strength”

GV and TT p22 — Commentary 1: “the great quantum leap”

McLuhan to Innis 1951 (1)

The Proscenium Arch (2)

The ancient bond of guest-host-enemy

Assmann on the battle between Horus and Seth

Mis-taking McLuhan (Kroker 2)

Mis-taking McLuhan (Kroker 1)

Mis-taking McLuhan (Overview)

Menippean satire 3

Menippean satire 2

Chrystall on time 2

Menippean satire

Plenary judgment

The ‘Values Discussion Group’ of 1949

The bias of communication

‘Limitation’ in Take Today

Media as atomic structures