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This series will link to full, archived copies of literary articles cited by Marshall McLuhan in his published and unpublished work, as well as articles which illuminate art criticism and historical commentary of the modernist age.
The Birth of Law and Communication Studies: MEDIA AND SPACE
Originally posted July 8, 2020. Updated October 28, 2023. The electric light is pure information.…
McLuhan’s Milieu: The Herd of Independent Minds (1948)
In his unpublished work The New American Vortex, Marshall McLuhan included in the first book…
We’ve spent the decade letting our tech define us. It’s out of control
Technology has grown from some devices and platforms we use to an entire environment in…
“The alphabet, of course”: How I Met Marshall McLuhan
I first met Marshall McLuhan in 1974 at the Coach House on the campus of…
Kevin Plummer’s Torontoist Story on the Origins of Explorations
The May 2014 issue of the Torontoist, a magazine dedicated in its own words to…
Remembered
This series catalogues fond reminiscences of Marshall McLuhan by friends and colleagues.
The Birth of Law and Communication Studies: MEDIA AND SPACE
Originally posted July 8, 2020. Updated October 28, 2023. The electric light is pure information. Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media The Trojan Horse On October 25, 2019, Philip Morais with Windsor Law and School of Creative Arts hosted Media & Space: The…
McLuhan’s Milieu: The Herd of Independent Minds (1948)
In his unpublished work The New American Vortex, Marshall McLuhan included in the first book a piece entitled The Case of the Missing Anecdote. The first three pages of its ten-page typescript are crossed out in pencil, and scribbled across…
We’ve spent the decade letting our tech define us. It’s out of control
Technology has grown from some devices and platforms we use to an entire environment in which we function We may come to remember this decade as the one when human beings finally realized we are up against something. We’re just…
“The alphabet, of course”: How I Met Marshall McLuhan
I first met Marshall McLuhan in 1974 at the Coach House on the campus of St. Michael’s College, the University of Toronto. I was a professor of physics carrying out research in theoretical elementary particle physics, lecturing undergrad and grad…
Kevin Plummer’s Torontoist Story on the Origins of Explorations
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…