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This series will link to full, archived copies of literary articles cited by Marshall McLuhan in his published and unpublished work, as well as articles which illuminate art criticism and historical commentary of the modernist age.
Probe: Mom-Son Porn on the Internet, C. G. Jung’s Thought, and Walter J. Ong’s Thought
Thomas J. Farrell University of Minnesota Duluth tfarrell@d.umn.edu Abstract: In this essay, I succinctly highlight…
After America
Bill Kuhns kuhns.bill@gmail.com What was once America is remembered by all Despite no one with…
Probe: C. G. Jung’s Work, and Walter J. Ong’s Thought
Thomas J. Farrell University of Minnesota Duluth tfarrell@d.umn.edu Abstract: Abstract: In this extremely associative and…
Probe: Jung on Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises (2023), and Walter J. Ong’s Thought
Thomas J. Farrell University of Minnesota Duluth tfarrell@d.umn.edu Abstract: In my 6,800-word essay, I highlight…
McLUHAN UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
A Review of Chase Joynt’s Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir (2024, Vancouver: Arsenal…
Remembered
This series catalogues fond reminiscences of Marshall McLuhan by friends and colleagues.
Probe: Mom-Son Porn on the Internet, C. G. Jung’s Thought, and Walter J. Ong’s Thought
Thomas J. Farrell University of Minnesota Duluth tfarrell@d.umn.edu Abstract: In this essay, I succinctly highlight and critique Matt Richtel’s article “It’s Time to Talk About Pornography, Scholars Say: More adolescents than ever are watching it. What’s needed, researchers say, are…
After America
Bill Kuhns kuhns.bill@gmail.com What was once America is remembered by all Despite no one with an inkling why it had to fall It collapsed in the stages of cracks spreading through a fine glass dome Its devastation, they say, a…
Probe: C. G. Jung’s Work, and Walter J. Ong’s Thought
Thomas J. Farrell University of Minnesota Duluth tfarrell@d.umn.edu Abstract: Abstract: In this extremely associative and wide-ranging and at times deeply personal essay, I probe the work of the famous prolific Swiss psychiatrist and psychological theorist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), with…
Probe: Jung on Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises (2023), and Walter J. Ong’s Thought
Thomas J. Farrell University of Minnesota Duluth tfarrell@d.umn.edu Abstract: In my 6,800-word essay, I highlight the public lectures that the Swiss psychiatrist and psychological theorist C. G. Jung (1875-1961) gave in 1939-1940 in Zurich on St. Ignatius Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises…
McLUHAN UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
A Review of Chase Joynt’s Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir (2024, Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 256 pages) By William Kuhns “…my kind of study in communication is a study of transformation…” Marshall McLuhan, “Living at the Speed…