Category Archives: Topic

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