Understanding Media Intensive is a 12-part look at media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s major 1964 work “Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man,” taught by Andrew McLuhan, Director of The McLuhan Institute. In an age where our media environment conditions and structures our reality in increasingly potent ways, Understanding Media provides important foundational knowledge on how our cultural traumas and
The May 2014 issue of the Torontoist, a magazine dedicated in its own words to capturing “the tenor and texture of life in Toronto,” published a story by Kevin Plummer about the origin of the Explorations journal in 1953 and its impact on Toronto life, at least Toronto academic life. The story was entitled Historicist: Explorations at