Category Archives: Predicting the present

McLuhan’s “secret societies” problem

Innis on the state of the world in 2021 (PEMS 3)

Innis citing Trollope on CV-building

Easterbrook on Innis and McLuhan in 1960

McLuhan & Peterson: competing fundamental myths 1

Nihilism stands at the door

Garbage Apocalypse

Harry Skornia, peace activist

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1971

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1970

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1972

The Art of Being Ruled (de Kerckhove 3)

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

Pugen’s time

Marshall foresees Zoom

McLuhan to Skornia early June 1959

What is the basis of prediction?

Culture Without Literacy

Lewis in McLuhan 1 (‘Lemuel in Lilliput’)

“If it can be done, it must be done.”

Voegelin and the question of “intelligible units”

The medium is the message in 1958

McLuhan and Voegelin 1953

Lewis citing Hutton’s Aretino on calumny

Planet polluto, garbage apocalypse

The subjugation of the human spirit

Lindberg before and after Foundations

Dialogue and ethics

Project 69: What I Learned On The Project

Not a mode of being but a mode of processing

The American dream

Universal abdication of human motive

How it is

Virtual coinage

The world too much with us

Present depicted 60 years ago

2017 foreseen in 1965

The family predicament

Lionizing and de-lionizing McLuhan

A sense of reality

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