Features

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This series will link to full, archived copies of literary articles cited by Marshall McLuhan in his published and unpublished work, as well as articles which illuminate art criticism and historical commentary of the modernist age.

1995 Interview with Eric McLuhan

1995 Interview with Eric McLuhan

Clinton IgnatovJan 20, 2021

The 1995 interactive CD-ROM title Understanding McLuhan is a gold-mine of material which has not…

Visual-Counterpoint No. 1: An Homage to North

Visual-Counterpoint No. 1: An Homage to North

Steve HicksDec 29, 2020

Upon the onset of winter, secluded in the wilds of Northern Ontario, I was inspired…

REVIEW: Cosmology and Logic in the Dao of Changes

REVIEW: Cosmology and Logic in the Dao of Changes

Benjamin StolzDec 25, 2020

Cosmology and Logic in the Dao of Changes By Ma Baoshan Trans. by Wen Haiming…

Songs About Phones

Songs About Phones

Paul LevinsonDec 18, 2020

Hey-ah-ay-ay(La, La. La, La, La, La, La)Oh, baby(La, La. La, La, La, La, La)Hey-ah-ay-ay(La, La.…

(Reading) Marshall McLuhan/(Curating) Beyond the Light Barrier

(Reading) Marshall McLuhan/(Curating) Beyond the Light Barrier

https://causa.home.blog 2020 The term TYPOGRAPHICAL IMAGE has been adopted as a descriptor for identifying the…

Remembered

This series catalogues fond reminiscences of Marshall McLuhan by friends and colleagues.

1995 Interview with Eric McLuhan

1995 Interview with Eric McLuhan

Clinton IgnatovJan 20, 202145 min read

The 1995 interactive CD-ROM title Understanding McLuhan is a gold-mine of material which has not yet been made accessible on the internet. Among them is this interview of Eric McLuhan on the subjects of the 1990’s McLuhan resurgence, his father’s…

Visual-Counterpoint No. 1: An Homage to North

Visual-Counterpoint No. 1: An Homage to North

Steve HicksDec 29, 20205 min read

Upon the onset of winter, secluded in the wilds of Northern Ontario, I was inspired to revisit Glenn Gould’s contrapuntal radio composition The Idea of North (1967). This sonic artwork places the voices of various interviewees in a disjunct and…

REVIEW: Cosmology and Logic in the Dao of Changes

REVIEW: Cosmology and Logic in the Dao of Changes

Benjamin StolzDec 25, 20204 min read

Cosmology and Logic in the Dao of Changes By Ma Baoshan Trans. by Wen Haiming and Christine A. Hale U. Hawaii Press, Honolulu, HI: 2019 This book, written by Ma Baoshan — a brother-in-law of Xi Jinping — is absolutely…

Songs About Phones

Songs About Phones

Paul LevinsonDec 18, 20201 min read

Hey-ah-ay-ay(La, La. La, La, La, La, La)Oh, baby(La, La. La, La, La, La, La)Hey-ah-ay-ay(La, La. La, La, La, La, La) You can have this dance with meYou can hold my hand andWhisper in my ear sweet words that I love…

(Reading) Marshall McLuhan/(Curating) Beyond the Light Barrier

(Reading) Marshall McLuhan/(Curating) Beyond the Light Barrier

https://causa.home.blog 2020 The term TYPOGRAPHICAL IMAGE has been adopted as a descriptor for identifying the densely self-contained DIGITAL-EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS that Robert R. Reid has produced in collaboration with CAUSA (Collective for Advanced and Unified Studies in the Visual Arts) –…