McLuhan's New Sciences
When we push our paradigms back, we get "history"; when we push them forward, we get "science". (Take Today, 15)
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On the opening of a new domain
McLuhan’s new sciences: “only the authority of knowledge”
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State of the world
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 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.”
Schiller’s
Aesthetic Letters
and nihilism
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
Lewis on the fate of the West
Planet polluto, garbage apocalypse
The subjugation of the human spirit
Heisenberg on ‘an ancient quarrel’
Riezler on the situation of the world
Vatican Council as politics and business
Proposal to Robert Hutchins 1947
The “magical” essence of communication
Giedion – an “Author’s Note”
Babel