New Explorations Weblog is proud to be the home of these special serialized features of posts and articles:
McLuhan’s Mileau
This series will link to full, archived copies of literary articles cited by Marshall McLuhan in his published and unpublished work, as well as articles which illuminate art criticism and historical commentary of the modernist age.
A Born Classic to which One Cannot Remain Indifferent: On B.W. Powe’s Ladders Made of Water (Stream Elsewhere Press, 2024)
By Jose Luiz Rangel joseluizrangel@icloud.com York University Ladders Made of Water, by Canadian writer, poet,…
The Value of Media Ecology for Enabling Human Rights Defenders to Advocate for the Protection of the Right to Mental Health in the Context of Deploying Artificial Intelligence Technology as part of the Decision-making Process
Tetyana (Tanya) Krupiy — Newcastle University — tanya.krupiy@newcastle.ac.uk Abstract: Traditionally, human rights activists gathered evidence…
Review: David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen (Random House, 2023).
Thomas J. Farrell University of Minnesota Duluth. tfarrell@d.umn.edu The American journalist and op-ed columnist for…
Review: Mary Harrington, Feminism Against Progress (Regnery, 2023).
Thomas J. Farrell University of Minnesota Duluth. tfarrell@d.umn.edu After Time magazine named the American singer-songwriter…
Review: Robert N. Bellah, Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011)
Thomas J. Farrell University of Minnesota Duluth. tfarrell@d.umn.edu Berkeley’s distinguished sociologist of religion Robert N.…
Remembered
This series catalogues fond reminiscences of Marshall McLuhan by friends and colleagues.
A Born Classic to which One Cannot Remain Indifferent: On B.W. Powe’s Ladders Made of Water (Stream Elsewhere Press, 2024)
By Jose Luiz Rangel joseluizrangel@icloud.com York University Ladders Made of Water, by Canadian writer, poet, philosopher and scholar BW Powe, is a genuine “work in progress” that obviously forms part of a trilogy that began with the amazing Blakean book,…
The Value of Media Ecology for Enabling Human Rights Defenders to Advocate for the Protection of the Right to Mental Health in the Context of Deploying Artificial Intelligence Technology as part of the Decision-making Process
Tetyana (Tanya) Krupiy — Newcastle University — tanya.krupiy@newcastle.ac.uk Abstract: Traditionally, human rights activists gathered evidence about violations of particular individuals’ human rights to demand that states change their conduct and adopt measures to prevent further violations. Deploying artificial intelligence as…
Review: David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen (Random House, 2023).
Thomas J. Farrell University of Minnesota Duluth. tfarrell@d.umn.edu The American journalist and op-ed columnist for the New York Times David Brooks (born in 1961 in Toronto; B. A., University of Chicago, 1983) once mentioned my favorite scholar the American Jesuit…
Review: Mary Harrington, Feminism Against Progress (Regnery, 2023).
Thomas J. Farrell University of Minnesota Duluth. tfarrell@d.umn.edu After Time magazine named the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift (born in 1989) Person of the Year 2023, on December 6, 2023, I read the 44-year-old Oxford-educated British author Mary Harrington’s short provocatively…
Review: Robert N. Bellah, Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011)
Thomas J. Farrell University of Minnesota Duluth. tfarrell@d.umn.edu Berkeley’s distinguished sociologist of religion Robert N. Bellah’s 775-p. magnum opus Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (2011) constructs an evolutionary Big History account in which to…