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via Jeffrey Schnapp The Electric Information Age Book, by Jeffrey Schnapp (the faculty director of Harvard’s MetaLAB) and Adam Michaels (a cofounder of Project Projects), is the third installment in the “Inventory Books” series, which seeks “to advance the role of design as an integrated force in book editing and production . . . as a means of revitalizing the space [...]
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The Revenge of Paperback Books
JAN 5, 2012 – A new book series attempts to revitalize the printed word with innovative design. Before Kindle and Nook, the mass-market paperback book was the publishing industry’s crown jewel. Convenient and compact, it was the inexpensive alternative to bulky tomes and ripe for avant garde experimentation. During the 1960s, experimentation is exactly what pioneer [...]
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The McLuhan Bookshop
Here’s your chance to buy original editions of works by Marshall McLuhan to augment your collection of some well-known books such as Counterblast, Take Today: The Executive as Dropout, From Cliche to Archetype, Through the Vanishing Point, City as Classroom, and others. There are also early and rare articles and pamphlets, bibliographies, DEW Line card [...]
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B.W. Powe, These Shadows Remain: A Fable (Guernica Editions, 2011) Book Review by Marshall Soules, PhD A vector of restless vitality flows through the works of B.W. Powe. From the early A Climate Charged (1984) to his recent These Shadows Remain, Powe’s finely-tuned and poetic sensibility is an antenna for the unheard sounds and invisible [...]
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Jeffrey Schnapp spoke at the recent International McLuhan conference in Toronto. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in new book styles, formats and the arrival of e-books; it covers the Jerome Agel and Quentin Fiore book collaborations with Marshall McLuhan in detail (The Medium is the Massage, War & Peace in the Global [...]
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The Hebrew Alphabet:- The Greek Alphabet:-
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Marshall McLuhan’s Mosaic: Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies By Elena Lamberti University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division © 2011 World Rights 320 Pages One hundred years after Marshall McLuhan’s birth, Elena Lamberti explores a fundamental, yet neglected aspect of his work: the solid humanistic roots of his original ‘mosaic’ form of writing. In this [...]
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The Poetics of Heartmaking where Obsolescence Is Only the Beginning By Daniel Richardsen - 2011 denotes the centenary of McLuhan’s birth and as such there have been events around the world to commemorate his unique legacy. We were very fortunate to have B.W. Powe, one of the fabled six students to whom McLuhan taught his last class, [...]
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CFP: American Communication Journal Special Issue Centennial Reflections: Marshall McLuhan’s Legacy and Media Studies Marshall McLuhan’s is best known for his well-known piercing and provocative statements such as our world has effectively become a “global village” and that the medium is the message/massage. In celebration of his trailblazing work, several conferences are being held around [...]
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A Man for All Media
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McLuhan & Ong on the Cultural Shift From Orality to Literacy
Marshall McLuhan at centre & Father Walter Ong to his right, Saint Louis University by Matthew Francis … The origins of a media ecology of hope in the parallelisms of Marshall McLuhan and Walter Ong are telling. Religious commonalities loom large: their personal histories, the use of the Protestant tradition as a foil, and the centrality of both [...]
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