Category Archives: State of the world

“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

Carpenter on McLuhan’s poetic conversation

Proposal to Robert Hutchins 1947

The “magical” essence of communication

Giedion – an “Author’s Note”

Babel