Thomas J. Farrell University of Minnesota Duluth tfarrell@d.umn.edu Abstract: In the main body of my “Probe: John Bradshaw (1933-2016), Robert Moore (1942-2016, and American Liberals and Progressives Today,” I highlight (1) the life and work of the Swiss psychiatrist and psychological theorist C. W. Jung (1875-1961); (2) the life and work of the American recovering
By Allen Allen Honestly, I couldn’t follow much of B.W. Powe’s latest extraordinary book… But what I did glean as an entry point was a balancing out of “feeling” and “knowing” our experiences. One page reads that “even angels feel… even demons know…” In a time where understanding intellectually, which includes culturally or
By Susan McCaslin, Poet When reading B.W. Powe’s Mysteria,I moved through it slowly, sensing I was being taken on a magical, consciousness-raising journey. The combination of handwritten and typed pages drew me in. Because of its power to delve into a unique union of the everyday and the mystical I fell in love with it
Thomas J. Farrell University of Minnesota Duluth tfarrell@d.umn.edu Abstract: In my lengthy, wide-ranging, and, at times, extremely associative and seemingly digressive “Probe: Pope Francis’ 2025 Autobiography, and Walter J. Ong’s Thought,” I succinctly highlight the work of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter Jackson Ong, Jr. (1912-2003;
By J.S. Porter He’s a complete grammar: a verb (to Trumpify); a noun (Trumpification); and another noun (Trumpism); and another noun (Trumpy);
By J.S. Porter www.spiritbookword.net for Marshall Soules, mentor and friend Among dead readers, recently Clive James, Harold Bloom, George Steiner And before them, Edward Said and Susan Sontag Hugh Kenner died a while back, too 2003 to be exact his last major work, The
Thomas J. Farrell University of Minnesota Duluth tfarrell@d.umn.edu Abstract: In my lengthy and wide-ranging essay “Probe: Some Deeply Personal Reflections About My Life, and About Certain Pornstars in My Life,” I draw on certain points in the work of the American Jesuit scholar Walter Jackson Ong, Jr. (1912-2003), the Swiss psychiatrist and psychological theorist Carl
Jean-François Vallée (Collège de Maisonneuve) This is the story of a personal quest. A few years ago, as I was writing an article describing Marshall McLuhan as the first truly “electric” intellectual, I discovered that “oracle of the electric age” and the “first celebrity intellectual of the electronic age” had not always been so