During the French Revolution they didnāt know what to do with all of the oppressive royal monuments and the statues of posh bastards on horseback. An argument ensued in which some revolutionaries wanted to tear down these monuments, while others wanted to preserve them as part of the ānational heritageā of the new republic. After
Originally posted July 8, 2020. Updated October 28, 2023. The electric light is pure information. Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media The Trojan Horse On October 25, 2019, Philip Morais with Windsor Law and School of Creative Arts hostedĀ Media & Space: The Regulation of Digital Platforms, New Media & Technologies Symposium. It was an interdisciplinary event launched
In his unpublished work The New American Vortex, Marshall McLuhan included in the first book a piece entitled The Case of the Missing Anecdote. The first three pages of its ten-page typescript are crossed out in pencil, and scribbled across the top are instructions to “Skip to the top of page 4.” It’s funny to
Technology has grown from some devices and platforms we use to an entire environment in which we function We may come to remember this decade as the one when human beings finally realized we are up against something. Weāre just not quite sure what it is. More of us have come to understand that our
I first met Marshall McLuhan in 1974 at the Coach House on the campus of St. Michaelās College, the University of Toronto. I was a professor of physics carrying out research in theoretical elementary particle physics, lecturing undergrad and grad courses and supervising grad students. In addition to these straight forward duties of a physics
The May 2014 issue of the Torontoist, a magazine dedicated in its own words to capturing āthe tenor and texture of life in Toronto,ā published a story by Kevin Plummer about the origin of the Explorations journal in 1953 and its impact on Toronto life, at least Toronto academic life. The story was entitled Historicist: Explorations at
