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This series will link to full, archived copies of literary articles cited by Marshall McLuhan in his published and unpublished work, as well as articles which illuminate art criticism and historical commentary of the modernist age.
Will Artificial Intelligence Bring about an Intellectual Revolution as Profound as the Enlightenment?
Robert K. Logan logan@physics.utoronto.ca The question that I have used as the title of this…
REVISITING B.W. POWE’S OUTAGE ON ITS 30TH. ANNIVERSARY
By J.S. Porter www.spiritbookword.net (for R.W. Megens, poet, teacher and media savant)…
EVERYTHING YOU KNOW AND EVERYTHING YOU ARE IS BECOMING ITS OPPOSITE
A Review of Andrey Mir’s The Digital Reversal (Popular Media Ecology, 2025; available from Amazon)…
REVISITING B.W. POWE’S OUTAGE ON ITS 30TH. ANNIVERSARY
By J.S. Porter www.spiritbookword.net (for R.W. Megens, poet, teacher and media savant)…
Remembered
This series catalogues fond reminiscences of Marshall McLuhan by friends and colleagues.
Will Artificial Intelligence Bring about an Intellectual Revolution as Profound as the Enlightenment?
Robert K. Logan logan@physics.utoronto.ca The question that I have used as the title of this probe was formulated by David A. Bell, a professor of history at Princeton in an article published in the New York Times August 3, 2025.…
REVISITING B.W. POWE’S OUTAGE ON ITS 30TH. ANNIVERSARY
By J.S. Porter www.spiritbookword.net (for R.W. Megens, poet, teacher and media savant) “So much of my life has been spent trying to figure out what others were saying, implying, whispering.” B.W. Powe, Outage THE BACKSTORY The year…
EVERYTHING YOU KNOW AND EVERYTHING YOU ARE IS BECOMING ITS OPPOSITE
A Review of Andrey Mir’s The Digital Reversal (Popular Media Ecology, 2025; available from Amazon) William Kuhns At first blush it sounds like a 21st century fairy tale: how at enough clicks of the “I like” thumb-upsicon, everything in sight…
REVISITING B.W. POWE’S OUTAGE ON ITS 30TH. ANNIVERSARY
By J.S. Porter www.spiritbookword.net (for R.W. Megens, poet, teacher and media savant) “So much of my life has been spent trying to figure out what others were saying, implying, whispering.” B.W. Powe, Outage THE BACKSTORY The year…