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Marshall McLuhan Residence, City of Edmonton, Sustainable Development Marshall McLuhan Residence By Lawrence Herzog, Herzog on Heritage | April 16, 2012 Herbert Marshall McLuhan predicted the World Wide Web nearly 30 years before it arrived, and coined the expressions “the medium is the message” and “the global village.” He was a leading and often controversial [...]
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Photo by Rick Macwilliam, Edmonton Journal McLuhan home in Edmonton to be preserved The childhood home of the man who coined the phrase “the medium is the message,” will be preserved after city council voted Wednesday to hand over $75,000 to the Edmonton Arts Council to purchase the site. The Highlands home at 11342 64 [...]
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City gives $75,000 to help preserve Marshall McLuhan’s childhood home. Photo by Rick MacWilliam EDMONTON – Media philosopher Marshall McLuhan’s childhood home will be preserved after city councillors voted Wednesday to give the Edmonton Arts Council $75,000 to help buy the site. The arts group will take out a mortgage to cover the rest of [...]
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Never mind your city (Edmonton), which is not exactly known for its rich artistic life or cultural heritage, what about the message sent to the rest of Canada and the world? Edmonton is known for only two things to the wider world, its Edmonton Oilers that won the NHL’s Stanley Cup five times during the early ’80s [...]
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Cheryl Toshack and her husband hope the city will buy their Highhands house, the boyhood home of media visionary Marshall McLuhan. Photograph by: Rick Macwilliam, The Journal, Edmonton Journal City urged to save Highlands house by Gordon Kent, Edmonton Journal - January 13, 2012 The childhood home of acclaimed Edmonton-born philosopher Marshall McLuhan is being [...]
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Edmonton, Alberta - October 14, 2011 July 21st this year marked the centenary of Marshall McLuhan’s birth in Edmonton. The popular thinker and media theorist, famous for his slogan “the medium is the message” and coining the phrase “global village”, has had a profound impact on how we think about mass media and communication technologies. [...]
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McLuhan Marshall photographed in 1974 by Canadian photographer Yousef Karsh The following article written (for the most part) by Allan Sheppard is reprised from the first issue of mediamag.ca published in October 2002. It’s re-appearance here is to offer a ‘mashup’ of Allan’s text and my additions as my birthday gift to Marshall McLuhan on his 100th birthday. It [...]
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Clever collection celebrates McLuhan’s impact BY FISH GRIWKOWSKY, EDMONTON JOURNALJUNE 23, 2011 Visual Arts Preview – Spaces + Places: Visioning McLuhan @100 Works by: Andrew Buszchak, Karen Campbell, Cindy Couldwell, France Dubois, Jenna Hill and others Where: Latitude 53 Gallery, 10248 106th St. When: Opening Thursday 7 p.m., runs through July 23 Down to his [...]
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EDMONTON – Down to his puns, revolutionary philosopher Marshall McLuhan was a living pattern-recognition machine. Born here, his 100th birthday would have been July 21, yet to affix anything particularity “Edmonton” about him is contortionist yoga. More than most public figures, McLuhan intentionally belonged to a world he described half a century ago as “global [...]
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A Man for All Media
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‘Dr. Spock of Pop Culture”s Childhood Home Preserved
Three cheers for Edmonton city council. According to the Edmonton Journal, media philosopher Marshall McLuhan’s childhood home will be preserved after city councillors voted to give the Edmonton Arts Council $75,000 to help buy the site. The arts organization plans to use most of the main floor of the home, at 11342 64th St., for a [...]
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