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This series will link to full, archived copies of literary articles cited by Marshall McLuhan in his published and unpublished work, as well as articles which illuminate art criticism and historical commentary of the modernist age.
BOOK RELEASE: What We/You Didn’t Know About Trump
Media Ecology’s executive dropout Bob Dobbs wears many, many hats. Perhaps he’d rather say he…
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…
Remembered
This series catalogues fond reminiscences of Marshall McLuhan by friends and colleagues.
BOOK RELEASE: What We/You Didn’t Know About Trump
Media Ecology’s executive dropout Bob Dobbs wears many, many hats. Perhaps he’d rather say he deftly straddles five bodies. He certainly defies conformity or easy introduction, but descriptions would certainly include conspiracy radio host, public convention-crasher, paranormal interview subject, and…
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…