Blogroll
- 1960-1970 Decade – mediainspiratorium – McLuhan in 1960s Culture
- 8 Great Articles Essays about MM
- A Last Look at the Tube by MM (1978)
- A Media Studies Field Guide: Marshall McLuhan
- ABC’s Marshall McLuhan: A Centenary in Media (pdf)
- Acoustic Cyberspace by Erik Davis
- Adria, M. (2010). Natural Environments as Figure on the Ground of the City (pdf)
- Allen, J. (2011). Mixed Media: A 100th Anniversary Reappraisal
- Alphabet Mother on Invention, Logan & McLuhan (pdf)
- Andy Warhol & MM: The Artist & the Sociologist
- Annie Hall Scene
- Annie Hall Screenplay
- Annual McLuhan Lecture – Inaugural by Tom Wolfe (1999)
- Answers.com: Marshall McLuhan
- Anton, Corey (2010): Understanding McLuhan’s “Understanding Media”
- Anton, Corey Website
- Anton, Corey Website
- Aphorisms of McLuhan (pdf)
- Archive.Org Marshall McLuhan Resources
- Art Quotations by McLuhan
- Arthur Kroker
- Artist Books: MM – Emily Carr University
- Aspen No. 4 – The McLuhan Issue
- Astronauts of Inner Space (including MM, 1966)
- Audio & Video (various): Deoxy.org: McLuhan (2005)
- Audio Interviews for "McLuhan's Wake"
- Audio: CBC Radio Ideas: At the Feet of the Master (2011
- Audio: Dick Cavett Show (1970) with MM & Truman Capote
- Audio: Finnish Broadcasting Interview of MM (1967)
- Audio: Jordan Mandel – Forward Through the Rearview Mirror
- Audio: McLuhan Interviewed by Nina Sutton (1975)
- Audio: McLuhan on the “New” Radio
- Audio: MM at John Hopkins University
- Audio: MM on SoundCloud
- Audio: MM on Wyndham Lewis
- Audio: Speaking Freely – MM, 4 Jan 1971, Public Broadcasting/N.E.T.
- Audio: The Mechanical Brides
- Audio: Voicemail from MM (for Paul Levinson)
- Audios re MM by Bob Dobbs
- Australian Broadcasting (ABC) Radio McLuhan Project
- Australian Broadcasting’s (ABC) A Century of McLuhan Infographic
- Australian Broadcasting’s (ABC) McLuhan Project on Facebook
- “City as Classroom” Excerpt (pdf)
- “The Man Who Came to Listen” by MM & Barrington Nevitt
- “Wired” Magazine Coverage of McLuhan
- Babe, R.E. (2008). Innis & the Emergence of Canadian Communication/Media Studies
- Ballad of Marshall McLuhan ;-)
- Barry, Matt (2010). McLuhan, Cronenberg & Postmodern Media
- Basic McLuhan: MM & the Senses
- Baudrillard vs McLuhan: Critique & Discussion
- Biases of the Ear & Eye by Daniel Chandler
- Bibliography (Select) (1911-1973) by Richard Katula (1973)(pdf)
- Bibliography by Lynne Alexandrova (pdf)
- Bibliography in Wikipedia
- Bibliography of Works by McLuhan & Collaborators by Liss Jeffrey
- Bibliography, Oxford Brookes University (UK)
- Bibliography: Selections from the Writings of MM by Margaret Stewart (pdf)
- Biography by Terrence Gordon
- Biography Caslon Analytics
- Blog & Website: Graham Larkin
- Blog: Alienated – Darren Werschler
- Blog: —shortwaveradioproject
- Blog: BW Powe
- Blog: Carlos Scolari et al (digitalismo.com)
- Blog: Circumambient Peripherisation
- Blog: Communicating Communication
- Blog: Digital Ethnography (Michael Wesch)
- Blog: Douglas Rushkoff’s & website
- Blog: Fernando Gutiérrez
- Blog: FHS (Fredericton High School) Media Studies
- Blog: FHS (Fredericton High School) Media Studies
- Blog: Figure/Ground Communications
- Blog: Grammarphobia
- Blog: Inscriptorium: Miscellany of McLuhan
- Blog: Jay Rosen’s PressThink
- Blog: John Walter’s Machina Memorialis
- Blog: Lance Strate's "Blog Time Passing"
- Blog: Light Through McLuhan
- Blog: Mark Federman
- Blog: McLuhan 100, iSchool, U of Toronto
- Blog: McLuhan Sandbox
- Blog: McLuhan Times Square
- Blog: McLuhan's New Sciences
- Blog: Media Psychology
- Blog: Media Theology
- Blog: Mediacology by Antonio Lopez
- Blog: Mental Radio
- Blog: Michael Hinton’s “Marshall & Me”
- Blog: Mike Plugh
- Blog: MMunlocked
- Blog: Norm Friesen
- Blog: Northrop Frye – The Educated Imagination
- Blog: Paul Levinson’s Infinite Regress
- Blog: Peter Fallon’s “In the Dark”
- Blog: Robert Blechman
- Blog: The Frailest Thing
- Blog: Toronto School of Communication
- Blog: User is Content
- Blog: User is Content: Culture is Our Business
- Bobbitt, D. (2011). Teaching McLuhan: Understanding Understanding Media
- BOOKSHOP, THE MCLUHAN
- Bruce Powe – A Canada of Light
- Bruce Powe Interviewed
- Bruce Powe Lecture on McLuhan & Northrop Frye
- Cac.ophony
- Cameron, Robin (2012). Mediation, MM & the Conundrum of Visual Art (pdf)
- Canadian Encyclopedia Entry for MM by Frank Zingrone
- Canadian Journal of Communication
- Canadian Journal of Media Studies
- Carey, J.W. (1998). MM: Geneology & Legacy
- Carpenter, Edmund (Ted). Explorations in Media & Anthropology (pdf)
- Carpenter, Ted (195?). Certain Media Biases (from Explorations 3)(pdf)
- Carpenter, Ted. "That Not-So-Silent Sea" (pdf)
- Castells, Manuel
- Cavell, Richard A. website
- Cayley, David website
- CBC MCLUHAN ARCHIVE
- CBC MCLUHAN ARCHIVE: DEMYSTIFYING MCLUHAN
- CBC MCLUHAN ARCHIVE: IN FRENCH (Radio-Canada)
- CBC Radio: Ideas – At the Feet of the Master (2011)
- CBC: A Pop Philosopher (1995)
- CBC: Gzowski Interviews McLuhan (1977)
- CBC: Homage to MM (Obituary)
- CBC: McLuhan’s Predictions Come True (1992)
- CBC: MM on “This Hour Has 7 Days” (1966)
- CBC: Norman Mailer & MM (Video, 1968)
- CBC: Take 30 McLuhan predicts 'world connectivity' (Video, 1965)
- CBC: Understanding MM Finally (1995)
- Centennial of Marshall McLuhan
- Center for Media Literacy
- Center for Studies in Oral Tradition
- Centre for Media & Celebrity Studies
- Ch. 2 of “Understanding Media”: Media Hot & Cold (pdf)
- Chiasmus & Thinking
- Chomsky, Noam – Language & the Rest of the World
- Chronology of Communication Before Electricity
- CIOS McLuhan Site
- Close-ups
- Coach House Project
- Cogan, Brian Pop Culture Expert
- Collins, C. (2011). 100 Years of McLuhan
- Colosi, Nina (2002). The Antenna of the Race. Leonardo
- Coming to Terms with the Future he Foresaw
- Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS)
- Computer History Museum
- Constantineau, W. (2005). Mime & Media: The Parallel Worlds of Étienne Decroux & MM
- Constantineau, W. Our Affair with the Chair: A Case Study in the Bias of Communication
- Critical Terms for Media Studies
- Critical Terms for Media Studies
- Crystall, Andrew (2011). A Little Epic: McLuhan’s Use of Epyllion
- Crystall, Andrew – After the Global Village (2011) (pdf)
- Crystall, Andrew – Website: Communicake.com
- Crystall, Andrew PhD Thesis on MM (pdf)
- Ctheory.net
- Culkin, John (1967). A Schoolman's Guide to MM. Saturday Review (pdf)
- Culkin, John: Father of Media Literacy
- Culkin, John: Why Study the Media
- Curyłło-Klag, I. Modernist Influences in Marshall McLuhan’s Counterblast (pdf)
- Czegledy, Nina (2011). MM in Europe 2011
- Czitron, D. (1982). Media & The American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan (pdf)
- Darroch, M. (2008). Bridging Urban & Media Studies: Jaqueline Tyrwhitt & the Explorations Group, 1951-1957
- Darroch, M. Giedion & Explorations: Transatlantic Influences on the Toronto School
- David Cronenberg’s “Videodrome”
- De Kerckhove, Derrick: Connecting Intelligence
- De Kerckhove, McLuhan & The "Toronto School of Communication" (pdf)
- DEW Line Card Deck on Flickr
- DEW Line Cards on Flickr
- Dictionary of Media & Communication (OUP)
- Digital Ethnography: Michael Wesch
- Digital Humanism: The Processed World of MM by Arthur Kroker
- Distant Early Warning: Marshall McLuhan
- DocsLibrary Marshall McLuhan Listings
- Doug Brent's Papers on Rhetoric and Communication
- Dr. Gerald O’Grady at York U (pdf)
- Education – The Revolution is Media
- Enculturation – Marshall McLuhan at 100 special issue
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Encyclopedia, New World
- Encyclopedia.com
- ERIC MCLUHAN'S SITE
- Evolution of Communication
- Evolutionary Media
- EXPLORATIONS IN MEDIA ECOLOGY (EME – MEA) Journal
- Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication (1953-59)
- Extensions of Man: Correspondence of McLuhan & Edward T. Hall
- Ezra Pound Society
- Ezra Pound/ Marshall McLuhan Correspondence
- Federman, Mark – McLuhan Thinking: Integral Awareness in the Connected Society (pdf)
- Federman, Mark – On Reading McLuhan (pdf)
- Fibreculture Journal
- Finnegans Wake Glosses
- Finnegans Web
- Finnegans,Tim Wake: Oldest Recorded Version
- Fitzgerald, Judith (2001). Critical Mass – Introduction to Marshall McLuhan: Wise Guy
- Fitzgerald, Judith on MM (2011)
- Flickr: McLuhan Festival
- Fordham Experiment (Wikipedia)
- Friesen, N: Marshall McLuhan’s Education of the Senses: Slideshare & Paper
- Friesen, N: Marshalling McLuhan for Media Theory (pdf)
- From Aristotle to Marshall McLuhan & Beyon
- FUSION Anomaly – Marshall McLuhan
- Generación McLuhan
- Genosko, G. (1997). McLuhan, Baudrillard & Cultural Theory
- Genosko, Gary The “Unknown” Explorations
- Gibson, Twyla (2008). MM's "Medium is the Message" (pdf)
- GINGKO PRESS – Official McLuhan Publisher
- Giroux, Henry Website
- Glenn Gould: Asperger's Syndrome, MM, & Walter Benjamin
- Global Media Journal: Canadian Edition
- Global Village
- Global Village (on Facebook)
- Globalization (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Gonzaga University Communication & Leadership Program
- Gordon, T. (1997). Chapter 1, McLuhan for Beginners (pdf)
- Gossage, Howard (1966) – Understanding Marshall McLuhan
- Gow, G. (2001). Spatial Metaphor in Work of MM (pdf
- Granata, Paolo Website
- Gross, J. (2011). The Medium is the Message
- Grosswiler, P. (1996). The Dialectical Methods of MM
- Gutenberg & the Printing Press (YouTube)
- Gutenberg Parenthesis
- Harley Parker (1915-1992)
- Havelock, E. (1963). Preface to Plato (pdf)
- Havelock, E. (1986): The Alphabetic Mind (pdf)
- Havelock, E. A. Wikipedia
- Havers, G. The Right Wing Postmodernism of MM (pdf)
- Heer, J. (2011). Divine Inspiration: How Catholicism made MM one of the 20th century’s freest & finest thinkers
- Herbert Marshall McLuhan (1911 – 1980)
- Historica Minutes: McLuhan video
- Hot Trump. Cool @aoc.
- How McLuhan, Agel & Fiore Created a New Visual Vernacular for the Information Age
- How to Become a Famous Media Scholar: The Case of MM –
- http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1470412913509466%20
- http://www.thebriancogan.com/%20%20
- If:book
- In the Garden with the Guru
- In Which We Know Nothing of His Work (2011)
- Innis, Harold
- Innis, Harold Adam: Empire & Communications (1952) Full Text
- Innis, Harold Adam: The Bias of Communication
- Innis, Harold goes to war
- Innis, Harold: A marginal junior American hick Baptist in dark times (2006)
- Innis, Harold: An Intellectual at the Edge of Empire
- Innis’s Influence on McLuhan (2002) (pdf)
- Institute for General Semantics
- International Encyclopedia of Communication
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MCLUHAN STUDIES
- International Journal of McLuhan Studies Issue 1 (pdf)
- Internet Archive: Links to podcasts, videos, articles
- Ivan Illich
- Jacobs, A. (2011). Why Bother with MM?
- Janine Marchessault
- Jeffrey, L. (1989). The Heat & the Light: Reassessment of the Contribution of MM (pdf)
- Jesuit Communication Project (Canada)
- John Lennon & Yoko Ono Interview by MM
- John Lennon, Yoko Ono & MM
- Julian Jaynes Society (Bicameral Mind Theory)
- Kawasaki, Kathy & McLuhan, Eric (2010): Critical Thinking & the Learning Commons (pdf)
- Kelly Library Finding Guide for MM Collection (pdf)
- Kroker, A. (1984). Technology & the Canadian Mind: Innis/McLuhan/Grant (pdf)
- Kroker, A. (1995). Digital Humanism: The Processed World of MM (pdf)
- Kroker, Arthur – The MisEducated Imagination: McLuhan’s Creativity
- LAWS OF MEDIA (LOM)
- Laws of Media Tweetrads (tetrads in 140 characters)
- Laws of Media: The Tetrad Concept
- Learning Machines – Evolution of Classroom Technology
- Letters of McLuhan: This Recording
- Lewis, Wyndham (1914). The Code of a Herdsman
- Lewis, Wyndham. Bio & Bibliography
- LibraryThing
- Lines of Communication – Media & Communication Studies
- Links for McLuhan Researchers
- Links to McLuhan Stuff
- Lochhead, D. (1994). Technology & Interpretation: Footnote to McLuhan
- Logan, R.K. Figure/Ground: Cracking the McLuhan Code (pdf)
- Logan, R.K. McLuhan. Misunderstood: Setting the Record Straight (pdf)
- LOM TetradJive
- Looking for MM in Afghanistan
- Maastricht McLuhan Institute
- MacDonald, M. (2011). Martial McLuhan I: Framing Information Warfare
- MacDonald. M. Empire & Communication (pdf)
- Magee, S.H. (2005). Some Call Him the Village Idiot (pdf)
- Marchand, P. (2011). The Fall & Rise of MM
- Marshall McLuhan
- Marshall McLuhan & Social Media
- Marshall McLuhan Catholic Secondary School
- Marshall McLuhan Catholic Secondary School Video
- Marshall McLuhan Center
- Marshall McLuhan Center
- Marshall McLuhan Center of Ontario Media Literacy
- Marshall McLuhan Collection of Photos
- Marshall McLuhan Exhibition, Berlin
- Marshall McLuhan Finnegans Wake Reading Club
- Marshall McLuhan iWise Map (Quotations)
- Marshall McLuhan Link Farm
- Marshall McLuhan Makes a Movie (pdf)
- Marshall McLuhan Meets William Gibson
- MARSHALL MCLUHAN OFFICIAL SITE
- Marshall McLuhan on Facebook
- Marshall McLuhan on Oral vs. Written Cultures
- Marshall McLuhan on Scoop.it
- Marshall McLuhan Photos of the Man
- Marshall McLuhan Research
- Marshall McLuhan Salon
- MARSHALL MCLUHAN SPEAKS (Centennial 2011)
- Marshall McLuhan, Man of Faith (audio & transcript)
- Marshall McLuhan: A Primer for Artists I
- Marshall McLuhan: Definition
- Marshall McLuhan: Ein Projekt
- Marshall McLuhan: End of the Book as We Know It
- Marshall McLuhan: The Medium is the Massage
- Marshall McLuhan: The Revolution is – Media!
- Marshall McLuhan: Theoretical Elaborations
- Mashup of Mashups on Marshall McLuhan
- McBride, M. (2002). Reading McLuhan
- McDonald, H.J. (1999): McLuhan as a Thomist
- McLean, A.L. (1998) – Media Effects: MM, TV Culture, & "The X-Files" (pdf)
- McLean, A.L. (1998): Media Effects: MM, Television Culture, & "The X-Files" (pdf)
- McLuhan
- McLuhan & Logan: Alphabet Mother of Invention (pdf)
- McLuhan & the Media Ecology Approach (pdf)
- McLuhan & York Wilson
- McLuhan 100 (Italia)
- McLuhan Books & Articles on Questia
- McLuhan Disciples Crowding the Web (1997)
- McLuhan Family History (pdf)
- McLuhan for Edupunks – The Transducer
- McLuhan House (where he was born), Edmonton, Alberta
- McLuhan in Europe 2011
- McLuhan in Europe 2011 on Facebook
- McLuhan Initiative for the Study of Literacies
- McLuhan Legacy Network (MLN) –
- McLuhan Letters & Pictures
- McLuhan Light & Dark
- McLuhan Meets the Net
- McLuhan on Discarnality
- McLuhan on Maui (2011)
- McLuhan Pictures on Flickr
- McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology, U of Toronto, New Website
- McLuhan Project (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
- McLuhan Project, The
- McLuhan Quotes
- McLuhan Reconsidered by Jim Andrews
- McLuhan Salon, McLuhan Centre, Toronto –
- McLuhan Studies 3rd Electronic Ed.
- McLuhan Studies – 6 Issues (1996-1999)
- McLuhan's Messages, Echoing On Iraq (2003)
- McLuhan, Baudrillard & Cultural Theory by Gary Genosko
- McLuhan, Eric (1967). The Fordham Experiment
- McLuhan, Eric. Source of the term "Global Village"
- McLuhan-Bissell Collection, University of Toronto (pdf)
- McLuhan: The Musical (pdf)
- McLuhan’s Articles from The Manitoban (1930s
- McLuhan’s Philosophy
- McLuhanisms
- MCS Links
- Media Awareness Network (Canada)
- MEDIA ECOLOGY ASSOCIATION (MEA)
- Media Ecology Mind Map
- Media Ecology Mind Map by Paolo Granata
- Media Ecology Wiki
- Media History From Gutenberg to the Digital Age
- Media Literacy Clearinghouse
- Media Literacy Partners (Gateway)
- Media Literacy: An Introduction
- Media McLuhan
- Media Theory & Criticism
- Media Transatlantic Conference Video (UBC, 2010)
- Media Tropes Special Issue on ‘The Medium is the Massage’ (2008)
- Media-Studies.ca
- Media: McLuhan
- MediaShift: PBS – Digital Media Revolution
- MediaStudies.com
- Medium Theory
- Medium Theory, Explorations in
- Medium Theory, TV & McLuhan
- Meyer, S. (1969). I Think Mr. McLuhan Is Trying to Tell Us Something (pdf)
- Meyrowitz_J. (2001). Morphing McLuhan (pdf)
- Mitra Encyclopedia: MM links, images, videos
- Mixed Media: Reappraisal of MM
- MM & Innis: Communication Theory (for a Multicultural World) ‘à la canadienne’? (pdf)
- MM & Leonard, G. (1967). The future of education: The class of 1989
- MM (1964). Notes on Burroughs
- MM Introduction to “Subliminal Seduction” (1973) (pdf)
- MM Lecture at John Hopkins select quotes (pdf)
- MM lecture: New Media in Arts Education (1956)
- MM Meets William Gibson in Cyberspace
- MM on Doctus Orator & the 2 Schools of Humanism
- MM on tumblr
- MM Papers in the George Gerbner Archive
- MM Research – Teaching Together
- MM Says That TV Killed Bobby Kennedy
- MM SPEAKS Special Collection
- MM Superstar (2011)
- MM U of Alberta Convocation Address (1971)
- MM's Early Writings in "The Manitoban" (1930s)
- MM's Return Party (from Fordham U), 1968.09.28
- MM, Man of Faith (audio & transcript)
- MM, Rhetoric, & the Prehistory of Media Studies by David Guillory
- MM: A Less Scientific Approach to Media Impact (pdf)
- MM: A media guru reconsidered (2012)
- MM: No Prophet without Honor by James Morrison
- MM’s Global Village
- MM’s Personal Library in Fisher Collection, U of Toronto (pdf)
- MM’s Theory of Communication: The Yegg – by Eric McLuhan (pdf)
- MMForesees the Global Village
- Mobile McLuhan: How McLuhan Might Have Thought of Mobile Learning
- Monoskop.org: Marshall McLuhan
- Morrison, James. No Prophet Without Honor
- Moses Znaimer – TV’s Revolutionary
- Moulthrop, S. (1991). Hypertext & the Laws of Media
- Mullen, M. (2006). Coming to Terms with the Future He Foresaw
- Munday, R. (n.d.). MM declared that “the medium is the message.” What did he mean?
- Munton, A. (2003). George Orwell, Wyndham Lewis & Origins of Cultural Studies
- Museum of Broadcast Communications
- MZTV Museum of Television, Toronto
- Narcissus as Narcosis
- National Archives of Canada
- National Archives of Canada McLuhan Papers Finding Aid (pdf)
- Neil Postman – Media Ecology Education (mp3)
- Neil Postman Information Page
- Neil Postman on Marshall McLuhan
- NeoPoiesis Press
- New Media as Political Forms by MM
- New World Encyclopedia
- Newman, P.C. (2013). The Lost Marshall McLuhan Tapes
- NNDB Biographical Entry
- Northrop Frye on MM: A Comprehensive Compilation
- Notes from the Walter Ong Collection
- Notes on Marshall McLuhan
- NY Times: MM Back From the Dustbin of History (pdf)
- Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me! – Annotated film transcript (pdf)
- Ohler, Dr. Jason: Using technology effectively
- Ohler, Dr. Jason: Using technology effectively
- Ohler, Dr. Jason: Using technology effectively
- OLD MESSENGERS, NEW MEDIA: LEGACY OF INNIS & MCLUHAN
- On Reading McLuhan by Mark Federman (pdf)
- Onufrijchuk, R.F. (1998). Object as Vortex: MM & Material Culture as Media of Communication. SFU PhD Thesis (pdf)
- Oxford Bibliographies: Marshall McLuhan (by Paul Levinson)
- Pacific Centre for Technology & Culture
- Pathways Project – Oral Tradition & the Internet
- Peters, J.D. (2011). McLuhan’s Grammatical Theology, CJC (pdf)
- Photography is the Message
- PicsMiks
- Pinterest : Marshall McLuhan
- Plate, S.B. (2011). The Religious Uses of MM
- Playboy Interview (1969)
- Playboy Interview (1969) (pdf)
- Plummer, K. (2014). Explorations at the Vanguard of Communications Studies
- Plummer, K. (2014). Explorations at the Vanguard of Communications Studies
- Podcast: Big Ideas – The Medium is the Message
- Potts, J. (2008). Who’s Afraid of Tech Determinism? Medium Theory
- Powe, B.W. & the Solitary Outlaws, by Marshall Soules
- Predictor of the Internet MM
- Printing Press’s Economic Impact
- Probe Ministries
- Quotations by McLuhan
- Quotations from Marshall McLuhan
- Quotations of McLuhan in Wikiquotes
- Quotes & sayings by McLuhan
- Quotes by McLuhan
- Quotes by McLuhan
- Quotes by McLuhan on PictureQuotes
- Quotes from the LP recording of The Medium is the Massage (Columbia Records, 1968)
- Rae, Alice (2008), “McLuhan’s Unconscious”, University of Adelaide PhD dissertation (pdf)
- Ralon, Laureano (2011). Marshall McLuhan, cometa intellectual (pdf)
- Re: Joyce – Podcasts on “Ulysses” by Frank Delaney
- Reading McLuhan by Jim Andrews (pdf)
- Reading McLuhan by Melanie McBride
- Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Nat’l Assoc of Ed Broadcasters for Dept of Education (1960) (pdf)
- Resource Links for the Study of Media & Communication
- Rhetorical & Cultural Studies: Critical Theory
- Rhodes, N. (2009). Speech, Print, & New Media: Nashe & MM (pdf)
- Robert K. Logan's homepage
- Robert K. Logan: McLuhan Misunderstood (2011)
- Roesle, Patrick (2015). McLuhan, the new tribalism, & the equivalence of thought & action
- Roman Onufrijchuk: The Innis in McLuhan's "System"
- Ron Deibert’s Citizen Lab, U of Toronto
- Sandstrom, G. (2012). Laws of media – The 4 effects: A McLuhan contribution to social epistemology (pdf)
- SaturdayPost: McLuhan’s Relevance In Today’s Media Mess Age
- Scoop-it! (mostly “scooped” from my blog)
- Scott Boms’ MM Photostream on Flickr
- Scott, Alec (2011). Marshall’s Laws. U of T Magazine
- Second Nature Online Journal – Religion & Media Ecology
- Sites on McLuhan
- Specters of McLuhan
- Strate, L. The Medium & McLuhan’s Message (pdf)
- Symbolism.org: The Medium of the Messenger
- Teaching McLuhan: Understanding Understanding Media (2011)
- Teaching Together Teacher Resources for McLuhan Studies
- Technoculture: An Online Journal of Technology in Society
- Technological Determinism – Marshall McLuhan (pdf)
- Technological Determinism – Mass Communication Theory
- Technological Determinism of MM
- Technological or Media Determinism – Daniel Chandler
- Telstar & the “Global Village”
- Tetrad Examples
- The McLuhan Probes
- The Meaning of ‘The Medium is the Message’ by Mark Federman
- The Mechanical Bride excerpt – How Not to Offend
- The Mechanical Bride, Geert Lovink
- The Medium is the Message – An interpretation
- The Medium is the Message by MM (pdf)
- The Mercurians (History of Communication Technologies)
- The Place of Marshall McLuhan in the Learning of his Times
- The Technium: Proverbs of St. McLuhan
- Theall, D. (2008). Messages in McLuhan’s Letters. CJC (pdf)
- Theall, D. The Toronto School of Communication
- Theory.org.uk (media & communication)
- Thornton, S. H. (2002). The Myth of the Global Village as Interactive Utopia
- Thus Spoke the Spectacle
- Timeline: Media & Communication
- Tony Schwartz, advertising & TV-radio pioneer
- Toronto School Initiative
- Toronto School of Communication
- Tremblay, M.A. (198?). Ezra Pound & Marshall McLuhan, St. Francis Xavier University PhD dissertation (pdf)
- Tribute to Donald Theall
- tumblr – mcluhan
- Twitter Marshall McLuhan
- Twitter Top #MarshallMcLuhan Tweets
- Tyler, T. (2008). A Procrustean Probe
- Tyler, T. (2009). McLuhan, Space & the Rise of Civilization
- UbuWeb's Expanded McLuhan Audio Library
- Uncovered Gem: MM’s Global Village
- Understand Media: Media Education on the Web
- Understanding Media (excerpts)
- Understanding Media @ 50 – Special Issue of Journal of Visual Culture (pdf)
- Understanding Media – A Syllabus
- Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964) Excerpts
- Understanding Media: The Medium is the Message (Chapter 1) (pdf)
- UnderstandingNewMedia.org
- University of Toronto
- University of Toronto Milestones
- University of Toronto Online Archives: Marshall McLuhan
- Vedeer, Rex (2011). Re-reading Marshall McLuhan: Hectic Zen, Rhetoric, & Composition
- Video & Text: MM Forward to a Book on Artist York Wilson
- Video: About ‘Understanding McLuhan’ – CD-ROM published by Voyager (1996)
- Video: CBC Life & Times – MM (1/6)
- Video: Derrick de Kerckhove interviewed in French
- Video: Father Peyton Interviews MM (2/3)
- Video: Finnish Broadcasting Interview of MM (1967)
- Video: Marshall McLuhan Playlist on YouTube
- Video: McLuhan on Australian TV (1977)
- Video: McLuhan's Wake – Descent into the Maelström
- Video: McLuhan’s Wake (2003) – Complete video
- Video: McLuhan’s Wake – Extensions
- Video: McLuhan’s Wake – Global Village
- Video: McLuhan’s Wake – Identity & Violence
- Video: McLuhan’s Wake – Identity & Violence
- Video: McLuhan’s Wake – Introduction
- Video: MM in Europe Annual Lecture, Darren Wershler
- Video: MM on Education & World Connectivity (CBC TV Take 30, 1965)
- Video: Modern Media Discussion (1984) Bob Marshall, Chris Twomey, Nelson Thall
- Video: Norman Mailer & MM (1968)
- Video: Of Mediums & Messages – Al Jazeera Report on MM (2013)
- Video: Out of Orbit: CBC Life & Times – MM (1999)
- Video: Paul Levinson Interviewed re “Digital McLuhan” (1999)
- Video: Pearltrees – CBC Life & Times
- Video: Re-touching McLuhan Conference, Berlin 2011: Lectures by Richard Cavell, Janine Marchessault, Michael Darroch
- Video: Terence McKenna – Riding Range with MM
- Video: The Burning Would: Film by Marshall McLuhan & Jane Jacobs
- Video: The World is a Global Village (CBC TV)
- Videos & Other: MM Collection
- Videos of McLuhan on Mitra
- Videos of McLuhan on Vimeo
- Videos on McLuhan
- Videos: Lectures at Johns Hopkins University (pdf)
- VIDEOS: MARSHALL MCLUHAN SPEAKS
- Videos: MM: Advice for Future Universities
- Videos: Pacific Centre for Technology & Culture (Arthur Kroker)
- Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute
- Virtual Snow – The Work of Edmund Carpenter
- Viseu, A. McLuhan’s Prediction Re Retrieval of Orality
- Wain, John (1986). The Incidental Thoughts of Marshall McLuhan (pdf)
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B.W. Powe’s Tribute to Alice Munro on Her Passing, May 13, 2024
Alice Munro (1931 – 2024)
By B.W. Powe
And now I’m meditating on Alice Munro’s passing. She left us at age 92, after a long period in dementia.
One of the greatest short story writers. I’ve wanted to say something about her for years.
You know—weird thing—I didn’t read her closely for a long time. Then I began reflecting on her writings when I was living in Spain. Suddenly, there, reading her when I was far away from Canada, the power of her stories and the style she embodied burst over me, occupying my thoughts.
Alone on a train, going from Barcelona to a town outside the city, reading Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, not comprehending the Castilian and Catalan spoken by other passengers, her words and sentences, her voice and characters became uncannily vivid, somehow lucidly enigmatic. What did this mean?
When I read her in Canada, she seemed a realist writer, reporting on lives in small town Ontario. When I read her in Spain, the hermetic side of her work struck me in my rootless state: I saw and felt the strangeness, how intensive her observational stances were—her narrators standing by, always outside (alone in their thoughts and contemplations) yet recording without blinkers or screens, illuminating how people and their worlds don’t and can’t abide or comprehend realities.
She was one of The Watchers—one who sees, hovers close. Her hermetic undercurrents: she never moralized, never prized style above all; the situations and conditions of lives came to her without ideology, didactic agendas, transcendental imperatives or religious creeds, satiric demolitions, or lyric exaltations. And yet she saw, and saw more, and contemplated and caught many lives unfolding. The short story was her fragment of the splendor; but the form’s condensations and strict practice meant much had to be omitted, or hidden, including any reference to that splendor.
When I was in Cordoba, I imagined a debate between Alice Munro and Don Quixote: The Watcher talking to the Mad Knight of Sorrows.
Who’s to say what’s real? Suffering imprints us with what we call reality; and the imagination provokes us into figuring there must be a transcendental or idealist purpose, somewhere.
This would be the crux of the Munro-Quixote debate. A writer from historical time arguing with a mythic character.
One who records illusions, one who champions illusions.
They could express and counter how the observer changes the observed, and how the observed changes the observer.
One saying, “Here are false hopes”, one saying, “A false hope is at least something…”
Maybe both would say, “Show me your despair, I already know about love…”
I could never imagine anything but a stalemate in their argument.
Munro evaded large metaphysical questions in story collections with titles like The Moons of Jupiter, Dear Life, The Progress of Love, and Something I’ve been Meaning to Tell You that appear to suggest the presence of those questions. Still the poetic spirit, in the ambiguities between the lines of her stories, seemed to me to be speaking of them.
I said in Canada she’s understood to be a realist; but when I continued to read her in Spain—where she’s also taken to be a realist—I sensed the mythic implications in the crucial small scale of the lives she envisioned. The ordinary doesn’t become miraculous in her writings. The ordinary becomes an intensified locus of the inexplicable, a place where our inner lives are describable but finally unknowable. The Watcher recognizes and documents how our notions of the real are wounds. Her writer-surrogates acknowledge how detached they are from…life, and yet implicated in it.
To this day I prefer reading Munro in Spain (and primarily in Andalusia, the southernmost province). This is because in another place her accomplishments seem even more memorable. Her stories, where vastness and scale implode (compress), become microcosms of an uncovering, and we witness people living in their thwarted, secretive conditions. She invites us to quieten our roaring selves, to concentrate on details and gestures we miss. The Watcher sees the turmoil of the surface and the lives within surging, leaving their traces in poised fictional expressions.
And we should recognize this sublime paradox: her seemingly real town, based on Wingham, in southern Ontario, her keenly sketched people, belong to fictive domains. She imagined it all, all of them—the historical locales and the locals themselves were subsumed into her imagining. This means her stories (always condensed to the point of almost becoming splinters—moving toward abrupt glimpses) endure in the mythic dimension where her town aligns with Flaubert’s Yonville, Joyce’s Dublin, Borges’ Buenos Aires’ streets, Hemingway’s Michigan lakeside towns and Paris arrondissements, Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, Dinesen’s Ngong Hills, Ferrante’s Neapolitan suburb, Cohen’s Montreal, Atwood’s downtown Toronto, and Carson’s El Camino. We’ll remember the town and the people because Munro dreamed them well and then wrote and revised them into being. In this way, her creations will, and must, stay ahead of her interpreters and biographers.
Munro with McLuhan, Frye, Cohen, Carson, and Atwood—the central imaginative poets and storytellers, mythographers, and Watchers of our climate…
And with our world environments overheating to extinguish us one day—burn us down, burn us out—I propose Munro’s collections should be set in protected sites. Like cairns. So that future entities (whatever the hybrids of AI and flesh may be) will find her work. When they do, and they’ve learned to decode her nuanced writing, they could read deeply into her stories’ brevities, and be altered by their depths. They would surely find how they show our humanity in the way it once thrived, before the extinction or before the digital transfigurations of being, in our bewildering complexities, in our gasps of living and inwardness.
The fascination with her enigmas. How her books can be easily absorbed in the immediacy of reading, when we respond to her agile and surprising stories, and yet never can we reach complete understanding. And why should we? The strangeness is all.
Post-Script to A Tribute to Alice Munro
By B.W. Powe
Once I met Munro at Albert Britnell’s Bookstore on Yonge Street in downtown Toronto. Briefly. I’d been asking the bookseller about Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses, which had just been published. I wanted to know how it was selling at the store. I knew his books had long languished in overlooked or forgotten margins. She said, “This one’s doing well.”
Then I turned around and saw Munro. Very affable. She said
she knew McCarthy’s books, admiring his strange eloquence and harrowing honesty. Sometimes I think she said “stranger,” not strange. And then she was gone.
Alice Munro holds one of her books as she receives her Man Booker Prize International
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