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This series will link to full, archived copies of literary articles cited by Marshall McLuhan in his published and unpublished work, as well as articles which illuminate art criticism and historical commentary of the modernist age.
WHERE HAVE ALL THE READERS GONE, LONG TIME AGO?
By J.S. Porter www.spiritbookword.net for Marshall Soules, mentor and friend Among dead readers,…
Probe: Some Deeply Personal Reflections About My Life, and About Certain Pornstars in My Life
Thomas J. Farrell University of Minnesota Duluth tfarrell@d.umn.edu Abstract: In my lengthy and wide-ranging essay…
THOMAS MERTON AND THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA
By J.S. Porter porterjs@rogers.com (for Susan McCaslin and Lynn R. Szabo…
The Electrical Conversion of Marshall McLuhan
Jean-François Vallée (Collège de Maisonneuve) This is the story of a personal quest. A few…
LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID: THOUGHTS ON B.W. POWE’S MYSTERIA
By J.S. Porter* www.spiritbookword.net (for Sean Malone—poet, reader, friend) “An empty…
Remembered
This series catalogues fond reminiscences of Marshall McLuhan by friends and colleagues.
WHERE HAVE ALL THE READERS GONE, LONG TIME AGO?
By J.S. Porter www.spiritbookword.net for Marshall Soules, mentor and friend Among dead readers, recently Clive James, Harold Bloom, George Steiner And before them, Edward Said and Susan Sontag Hugh Kenner died a while back, too 2003 to be…
Probe: Some Deeply Personal Reflections About My Life, and About Certain Pornstars in My Life
Thomas J. Farrell University of Minnesota Duluth tfarrell@d.umn.edu Abstract: In my lengthy and wide-ranging essay “Probe: Some Deeply Personal Reflections About My Life, and About Certain Pornstars in My Life,” I draw on certain points in the work of the…
THOMAS MERTON AND THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA
By J.S. Porter porterjs@rogers.com (for Susan McCaslin and Lynn R. Szabo who inspire me with their poetic thought) ABSTRACT This article lays out some of the grounds for considering Thomas Merton as a candidate for the…
The Electrical Conversion of Marshall McLuhan
Jean-François Vallée (Collège de Maisonneuve) This is the story of a personal quest. A few years ago, as I was writing an article describing Marshall McLuhan as the first truly “electric” intellectual,[1] I discovered that “oracle of the electric age”…
LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID: THOUGHTS ON B.W. POWE’S MYSTERIA
By J.S. Porter* www.spiritbookword.net (for Sean Malone—poet, reader, friend) “An empty page is a paradise inviting you to a feast.” “We tell stories so we won’t disappear.” Mysteria, a book of love, a book of dreams,…