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This series will link to full, archived copies of literary articles cited by Marshall McLuhan in his published and unpublished work, as well as articles which illuminate art criticism and historical commentary of the modernist age.
McLuhan’s Milieu—Bergson on Machinery
When Marshall McLuhan mentions Henri Bergson at all, it is in a dismissive tone. The…
McLuhan on phenomenology in 1978
Cameron McEwen is a digital publisher who has been regularly posting at McLuhan’s New Sciences…
The Manifesto of the Viral Editor
The first “Artificial Intelligence” has emerged in the technological world, made up of real people:…
“It’ll Change What I’m Writing, You Know”: How I Met Marshall McLuhan
I met Marshall McLuhan when he replaced me as a guest lecturer at Fordham University…
Remembered
This series catalogues fond reminiscences of Marshall McLuhan by friends and colleagues.
McLuhan’s Milieu—Bergson on Machinery
When Marshall McLuhan mentions Henri Bergson at all, it is in a dismissive tone. The reasons why are simple enough. McLuhan was a Thomist inspired by Jacques Maritain, a fellow convert to Catholicism and student of Bergson at The Sorbonne.…
McLuhan on phenomenology in 1978
Cameron McEwen is a digital publisher who has been regularly posting at McLuhan’s New Sciences since 2013. This post was originally written in April of 2020. In July 1978, as part of Louis Forsdale’s course on communication at Columbia1, McLuhan…
The Manifesto of the Viral Editor
The first “Artificial Intelligence” has emerged in the technological world, made up of real people: the Viral Editor of the Internet. It is currently building a new social reality, creating an alternative form of guerrilla journalism and begetting a new social…
“It’ll Change What I’m Writing, You Know”: How I Met Marshall McLuhan
I met Marshall McLuhan when he replaced me as a guest lecturer at Fordham University in September of 1967. That’s the story I’ve been telling all these years, and it’s mostly true. John Culkin, S.J., who had an uncanny talent…