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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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The literary journal where McLuhan spoke to a Catholic audience, RENASCENCE: Essays on Values in Literature, has published its Fall 2011 double-issue, Vol LXIV, No. 1, which is devoted to Marshall McLuhan. Guest Editor’s Page…………………………………………………………………………..Mark Stahlman 3 The Place of Marshall McLuhan in the Learning of His Times…………..Mark Stahlman 5 On Renaissances………………………………………………………………………………..Eric McLuhan 19 McLuhan, [...]
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Adoration of the Shepherds by Gerard van Honthorst, 1622 Christmas has become a commercial celebration of commerce and capitalism, belying its religious origins……AlexK McLuhan observed that many aspects of our culture eventually evolve into their own opposites. Credit cards, for example, were introduced as something to be used in an emergency, a help to travelers who [...]
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McLuhan: Unknown but famous
December 19, 2011 Marshall McLuhan is back in the spotlight in a worldwide celebration of 100 years of McLuhan. He wasn’t really gone. What McLuhan – as a cult figure – predicted years ago of an emerging global village, a sort of a Promised Land would arrive. McLuhan, who didn’t think it would necessarily be [...]
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Prophet of the Electric Age
MARSHALL MCLUHAN’S POST-CURIAL CATHOLICISM Michael W. Higgins - October 07, 2011 Marshall McLuhan, 1967 (Photo: The Estate of Yousuf Karsh) When one thinks of Herbert Marshall McLuhan—literary scholar, communications theorist, extraterritorial celebrity, famed cameo extra in a Woody Allen movie—Roman Catholicism doesn’t necessarily spring to mind. Not that his many biographers and commentators have avoided the [...]
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Monday, September 12th, 2011 - by Bill Baker & Evan Leatherwood by permission from The Catholic Herald, where this piece originally appeared. (Photo illustration by John Reeves and Robert Cross) Marshall McLuhan, who coined “global village” and “the medium is the message,” and who predicted the internet and the rise of social media, was born a century [...]
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The Marshall McLuhan Initiative - St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada French Priest Receives McLuhan Award from Manitoba, Canada, Winnipeg, 23 Aug 2011 Today, at the Saint‐François d’Assise residence in Lyons, France, Pierre Babin will receive the Medium and the Light Award, “given to a person, group [...]
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by S. Brent Plate - 22 July, 2011 In the midst of media hoopla about another technology being laid to rest–namely the end of the space shuttle program–there was a lesser-told story in the news this week about the centenary of one of the more technologically engaged and provocative thinkers of recent years: Marshall McLuhan [...]
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100th anniversary of the birth of the Canadian sociologist “McLuhan? In the beginning he was snubbed by many, but this year for the 100th anniversary of his birth (July 21, 1911), the world is celebrating with over 250 conferences on him, even in China and Korea.” When the mass-media expert, Derrick de Kerckhove speaks of [...]
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A Man for All Media
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Pierre Babin, a “Giant” in Catholic Communication, Has Left Us
Lyon, May 9, 2012 (SIGNIS) – Pierre Babin is no longer with us. The Founder of CREC and pioneer of the “Symbolic Way” died on 9th May 2012. He goes to the Christ that he strived to bring to all. We remember him as a man of faith, open, convivial and above all a communicator. [...]
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