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This series will link to full, archived copies of literary articles cited by Marshall McLuhan in his published and unpublished work, as well as articles which illuminate art criticism and historical commentary of the modernist age.
The Best is Yet to Come
A book is a beginning. In the last decade, when some might have said the book…
McLuhan on phenomenology in LOM
Phenomenology is treated ambiguously in McLuhan’s posthumous Laws of Media, which was edited and co-authored by…
Urban Upset and the Pandemic?
With the plane the cities began to have the same slender relation to human needs…
McLuhan’s Milieu—Bergson on Machinery
When Marshall McLuhan mentions Henri Bergson at all, it is in a dismissive tone. The…
McLuhan on phenomenology in 1978
Cameron McEwen is a digital publisher who has been regularly posting at McLuhan’s New Sciences…
Remembered
This series catalogues fond reminiscences of Marshall McLuhan by friends and colleagues.
The Best is Yet to Come
A book is a beginning. In the last decade, when some might have said the book was dead, books have really come alive for me. Some may be inclined to say that books are not living things—but I know differently: books,…
McLuhan on phenomenology in LOM
Phenomenology is treated ambiguously in McLuhan’s posthumous Laws of Media, which was edited and co-authored by his son, Eric. On the one hand, it is seen as an abstract attempt1 to achieve what could not, in McLuhan’s view, be achieved in this…
Urban Upset and the Pandemic?
With the plane the cities began to have the same slender relation to human needs that museums do. They became corridors of showcases echoing the departing forms of industrial assembly lines. – Understanding Media, 1964 Centralism depends on margins that…
McLuhan’s Milieu—Bergson on Machinery
When Marshall McLuhan mentions Henri Bergson at all, it is in a dismissive tone. The reasons why are simple enough. McLuhan was a Thomist inspired by Jacques Maritain, a fellow convert to Catholicism and student of Bergson at The Sorbonne.…
McLuhan on phenomenology in 1978
Cameron McEwen is a digital publisher who has been regularly posting at McLuhan’s New Sciences since 2013. This post was originally written in April of 2020. In July 1978, as part of Louis Forsdale’s course on communication at Columbia1, McLuhan…