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This series will link to full, archived copies of literary articles cited by Marshall McLuhan in his published and unpublished work, as well as articles which illuminate art criticism and historical commentary of the modernist age.
Postjournalism and the death of newspapers
Fake news is an overhyped issue. The greatest harm caused by media is polarization, and…
An Anti-Environment Through Deconstruction, Seduction, and Function
Salomé: Woman of Valor is a collaborative multimedia artwork—a multivalent and multisensory experience—crafted by poet and…
The Psychedelics of Electricity
Media guru Marshall McLuhan met LSD evangelist Timothy Leary for the first time in 1966…
Andrew McLuhan Teaches Understanding Media Intensive
Understanding Media Intensive is a 12-part look at media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s major 1964 work “Understanding…
Remembered
This series catalogues fond reminiscences of Marshall McLuhan by friends and colleagues.
Postjournalism and the death of newspapers
Fake news is an overhyped issue. The greatest harm caused by media is polarization, and the biggest issue is that polarization has become systemically embedded into both social media and the mass media. Polarization is not merely a side effect…
An Anti-Environment Through Deconstruction, Seduction, and Function
Salomé: Woman of Valor is a collaborative multimedia artwork—a multivalent and multisensory experience—crafted by poet and professor Adeena Karasick and composer and musician Frank London which de- and re-constructs the popular mythos of Salomé through a self-referential nexus of the printed…
The Psychedelics of Electricity
Media guru Marshall McLuhan met LSD evangelist Timothy Leary for the first time in 1966 at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan. Leary was in town to testify at the U.S. Senate Hearings on psychedelic drugs. The two hit it off…
Andrew McLuhan Teaches Understanding Media Intensive
Understanding Media Intensive is a 12-part look at media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s major 1964 work “Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man,” taught by Andrew McLuhan, Director of The McLuhan Institute. In an age where our media environment conditions and structures our…