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This series will link to full, archived copies of literary articles cited by Marshall McLuhan in his published and unpublished work, as well as articles which illuminate art criticism and historical commentary of the modernist age.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: Hannah Arendt on Existenz
In a May 1946 letter to Felix Giovanelli, McLuhan points out the poetry in the…
The Wheel of Memeology: An Anti-Environment
At the end of the second year of my doctoral program, the first and second…
More Than a Double-Take: How I Met Marshall McLuhan
It was a drizzly day in New York in the Spring of 1977, if memory…
COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, and the Media
In the past few months, I’ve done a large number of podcasts and videos about…
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Remembered
This series catalogues fond reminiscences of Marshall McLuhan by friends and colleagues.
McLuhan’s Milieu: Hannah Arendt on Existenz
In a May 1946 letter to Felix Giovanelli, McLuhan points out the poetry in the placement of an experimental atomic reactor pile mentioned in a scientific report. That it should be situated symbolically in a football stadium is too perfect.…
The Wheel of Memeology: An Anti-Environment
At the end of the second year of my doctoral program, the first and second year PhD students were asked to create a poster communicating their doctoral research. Since my own research centred largely on aesthetics, form, and perception as…
More Than a Double-Take: How I Met Marshall McLuhan
It was a drizzly day in New York in the Spring of 1977, if memory serves. I was more than halfway through with my PhD in the Media Ecology Program at New York University, and Neil Postman was my doctorial…
COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, and the Media
In the past few months, I’ve done a large number of podcasts and videos about COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, and the media: A – I had conversations with Neil Andersen and Carol Arcus about all of those topics on their Mediacy podcast. …