The first “Artificial Intelligence” has emerged in the technological world, made up of real people: the Viral Editor of the Internet. It is currently building a new social reality, creating an alternative form of guerrilla journalism and begetting a new social…

I met Marshall McLuhan when he replaced me as a guest lecturer at Fordham University in September of 1967. That’s the story I’ve been telling all these years, and it’s mostly  true. John Culkin, S.J., who had an uncanny talent…

In a May 1946 letter to Felix Giovanelli, McLuhan points out the poetry in the placement of an experimental atomic reactor pile mentioned in a scientific report. That it should be situated symbolically in a football stadium is too perfect.…

At the end of the second year of my doctoral program, the first and second year PhD students were asked to create a poster communicating their doctoral research. Since my own research centred largely on aesthetics, form, and perception as…