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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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Steve Jobs ushers us into the brave new media age predicted by Marshall McLuhan (Hulton Archive) I happen to have Mr McLuhan right here… Reviewed by Joy Lo Dico - Sunday, 2 October 2011 Media have taken a long and noisy journey from the carving of the story of Gilgamesh in cunei-form on tablets 4,000 [...]
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Intellect is delighted to announce that from 2011, we will be publishing the seminal journal, Explorations in Meedia Ecology (EME). Now in its 10th volume, this publication continues to break new ground and under the editorship of Paul Grosswiler, will be a fantastic addition to our Cultural & Media Studies portfolio. Explorations in Media Ecology [...]
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Sunday, 15 May 2011 16:52 Hank Berger Marshall McLuhan realized early on, according to a new book by Douglas Coupland reviewed by Pico Iyer in the New York Review of Books, “that the same textual skills that might turn him into just another literary professor in the provinces could, if applied to all the trivial, proliferating stuff of the postwar world, [...]
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April 01st, 2011 There have been plenty of people touted to carry the mantle left behind by Marshall McLuhan — Neil Postman, Douglas Rushkoff, Paul Levinson, even Jean Baudrillard, but no one has been working more behind the scenes and under the radar to keep his legacy alive than his own son and sometimes co-author Eric McLuhan. Eric McLuhan has [...]
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This exhibition took place at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MoCCA) in Toronto back in May, 2010. Still, it is worth recalling to take note of the influence of Marshall McLuhan on modern art and photography. Delivering the message through a new mediumFestival probes media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s less-explored notions of photography April 30, 2010 [...]
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Marshall McLuhan in 1963 The Messenger was a Medium // Marshall McLuhan saw what was coming down the intertubes 40 years ago, Douglas Coupland explains in his new biography of the famed thinker Reviewed by Michael R. LeGault Globe and Mail Update Published on Thursday, Jun. 10, 2010 10:30AM EDT Last updated on Friday, Jun. [...]
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A Man for All Media
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Deciphering the Life of a Complicated Thinker
Deciphering the Life of a Complicated Thinker A novelist turned biographer places ‘[Marshall] McLuhan’s maddeningly difficult ideas in a recognizably human context.’ By Dan Kennedy Media commentator Marshall McLuhan reads as he reclines in his study, 1968. Photo by The Associated Press. The great risk in reading Marshall McLuhan literally is that you don’t know how [...]
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