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Online Material About and By Marshall McLuhan
A Collection of Online Material About and By Marshall McLuhan
The purpose of this collection is to provide visitors to newexplorations.ca with access to online material about and by Marshall McLuhan, the co-editor of the original journal Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication.
Marshall McLuhan Speaks Special Collection
Produced by Stephanie McLuhan (Marshall’s daughter) and Sandy Pearl
This is a collection of videos capturing McLuhan speaking in various settings including lectures, conference presentations, interviews, and TV appearances.
http://www.marshallmcluhanspeaks.com/about/index.html
YouTube McLuhan Speaks
This collection of videos contains the same material as the above collection but organized by topics that some readers might find handy.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfzwZCEDPfXjTWjetuuL00g
Marshall McLuhan speaks to the CBC in 1970
This collection of video comes from the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s (CBC) Archives.
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/marshall-mcluhan-speaks-to-the-cbc-in-1970
The McLuhan Galaxy Blog by Alex Kuskis
Alex Kuskis has been blogging since collecting fascinating material by and about Marshall McLuhan. Alex describes his blog like this, “A repository of McLuhan-related news, conferences, events, books, articles, links & general information.”
https://mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com
Marshall McLuhan Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan
The Visionary Thought of Marshall McLuhan, Introduced and Demystified by Tom Wolfe
An interesting conversation with Tom Wolfe and Marshall McLuhan
http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/the-visionary-thought-of-marshall-mcluhan-demystified-by-tom-wolfe.html
The Official Site for the Estate of Marshall McLuhan
This site contains interesting material by and about Marshall McLuhan
https://www.marshallmcluhan.com
July 6, 2011 Toronto Life Magazine Story on McLuhan
This site contains the story “In the ’60s, Marshall McLuhan was Toronto’s most famous intellectual; now, the world has finally caught up with him.” The story contains a number of iconic photos of McLuhan
https://torontolife.com/city/marshall-mcluhan-profile
Suppose he is what he sounds like, the most important thinker since Newton, Darwin, Freud, Einstein, Pavlov. What if he is right? by Tom Wolfe
An article from New York Herald Tribune, 1965 reprinted in The Pump House Gang in 1968.
http://archive.wphna.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/1965-NYHT-Tom-Wolfe-on-Marshall-McLuhan.pdf
Marshall McLuhan’s Playboy Interview
This interview appeared in the March 1969 issue of the Playboy magazine.
http://nextnature.net/2009/12/the-playboy-interview-marshall-mcluhan
Playboy Magazine, March 1969
The Wisdom of Saint Marshall, the Holy Fool & Channeling McLuhan
These two articles by Gary Wolf appeared in the January 1, 1996 issue of Wired Magazine
https://www.wired.com/1996/01/saint-marshal/
https://www.wired.com/1996/01/channeling/
McLuhan Archival Material:
Marshall McLuhan Collection at Library and Archives Canada
This document provides a description and access to the Marshall McLuhan Collection at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa.
See also: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/biography-people/mcluhan/Pages/mcluhan.aspx
University of Toronto Discover Archives: Manuscript Collection MS COLL 00657 – Marshall McLuhan Papers
This site catalogs the papers of Marshall McLuhan archived in the Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto
https://discoverarchives.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/marshall-mcluhan-papers
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: Marshall McLuhan Library Collection
This site provides a description of McLuhan’s working library that consists of approximately 6000 books, journals and pamphlets.
https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/sites/fisher.library.utoronto.ca/files/mcluhanFA-june2014.pdf
Marshall McLuhan Collection at the John M. Kelly Library, University of St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto
This site catalogs the McLuhan papers held by the Kelly Library
https://discoverarchives.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/marshall-mcluhan-papers