Category Archives: State of the world

Malinowski’s “new science” of culture (part 2)

Malinowski’s “new science” of culture (part 1)

On the imbalance between physical and social science

Reborn from ruin

First words on the moon

McLuhan’s contributions

Dobbs: McLuhan on copy and original

Dobbs: McLuhan on how much truth you got

Yeats’ rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem

Dilworth: McLuhan on The Waste Land

Chaos and confusion in 1948

McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin’s Joyce, chap 5)

McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin’s Joyce, chap 1)

“Arrest in time” in Lewis

McLuhan and Plato 14: “nothing exists in itself”

Evolution: shift from biology to technology

Predicting the present

Pre-tribal awareness

Going quantum

Dali Visage paranoïaque

Pasteur

DNA

Archimedes

Through the vanishing point with Nietzsche

McLuhan’s communication problem

A whole new genus of sciences

McLuhan & Peterson: competing fundamental myths 2

Future of the human species

Genitives, times and essential types

What was McLuhan up to?

Escape from the cul-de-sac

McLuhan on Vico

McDonald on McLuhan’s utopianism

McDonald on Humboldt and McLuhan

Thoth: “the third ends the discord of the two”

WSCM anteroom: peace in the global village?

The earwig when bisected fights itself

McLuhan and Winters 2

Plenary consciousness 2

Classroom without walls

Connubium of Being 2

Connubium of Being 1

Poetic vs Rhetorical Exegesis 2: a question of ontology

Poetic vs Rhetorical Exegesis 1

“Anybody can now be made famous”

Voegelin letters background

McLuhan’s “secret societies” problem

Innis multiplying Hugo (PEMS 6)

Innis on limitation (PEMS 5)

Innis on the eclipse of truth (PEMS 4)

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

Innis on media revolutions (PEMS 2)

Innis citing Trollope on CV-building

McLuhan reads Innis (PEMS 1)

Easterbrook on Innis and McLuhan in 1960

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’

Jordan Peterson on the hero

Point and circumference in 1939

Nihilism stands at the door

Meaning as an arrow

Taking flight

Translating McLuhan to McLuhan

Statement on Culture and Technology

Garbage Apocalypse

Harry Skornia, peace activist

McLuhan in UT President’s Report 1967

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

Comments on Elder’s comments on Barilli 2

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

Media Log II

McLuhan to Skornia 1/25/59 (Cassirer)

What is the basis of prediction?

“Understanding is not a point of view”

McLuhan on Burroughs

Defending the print medium in 1958

The McLuhans move to Winnipeg

Herb McLuhan in Maclean’s

Epoch: Dostoevsky

Beyond the cultural monad

Culture Without Literacy

‘A Federal Offense!’

Lewis in McLuhan 3 (‘Nihilism Exposed’)

Lewis in McLuhan 1 (‘Lemuel in Lilliput’)

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

“If it can be done, it must be done.”