Archive for the ‘Commentary’ Category
Luca De Biase, Journalist; Editor, Nova 24, of Il Sole 24 Ore By Jonathan R. Slater, Ph.D. Italian journalist Luca De Biase was the invited speaker at an event sponsored by Toronto Metropolitan University and the University of Toronto on Wednesday evening, March 15 at TMU’s Rogers Communication Centre. Dr. Paolo Granata, coordinator of St. Michael’s […]
Filed under: Articles, Commentary, Ideas, journalism, McLuhan Salons, New Media, News, St Michael's College, university | Closed
You’ll find Included in this collection a selection of public presentations and thoughts on our spiritual and ecological crises, including reflections on Jacques Ellul, Simone Weil, Teilhard de Chardin, Marshall McLuhan and Anne Carson, lyrics for an unfinished rock opera, a dramatic homily on Harry Potter, meditations on Dune Part One, Nomadland and Eternals, poems […]
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In his new course, U of Toronto prof Paolo Granata tackles the allegorical nature of Netflix mega-hit ‘Squid Game’ (photos courtesy Granata) By Courtney Shea, February 7, 2023 Hundreds of millions of people all over the world watched Netflix’s Squid Game, but only one turned the hit series into a university course. Paolo Granata is the […]
Filed under: Academic, Articles, Commentary, Education, Games, Ideas, Interviews, Pop Culture, St Michaels College, Students, TV, university | Closed
Marshall McLuhan at the Coach House on the University of Toronto campus, (Robert Lansdale, University of Toronto Archives). By Alexander Kuskis, PhD University of Toronto The purpose of the Centre for Culture and Technology, as initially envisioned by Marshall McLuhan in 1963, was to “advance the […]
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Media ecology is an interdisciplinary field of inquiry rooted in both North American and Continental European academic traditions that remains largely under the radar of contemporary scholars. This book aims to concisely and systematically survey a wide range of 20th-century thinkers who shared an approach to media studies as a complex system of relations and […]
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Marshall McLuhan in an undated photo (Wikimedia Commons) Renée Darline Roden – December 15, 2022 Nick Ripatrazone’s new book on Marshall McLuhan, Digital Communion, arrived in my mailbox the day I presented a play about Marshall McLuhan at a conference on the Catholic imagination in Dallas, Tex. A fitting coincidence, if such things exist. I began writing […]
Filed under: Articles, Books about McLuhan, Commentary, Ideas, Internet, Media Ecology, New Media, Religion, Reviews | Closed
Best known as the amicable Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto when this film was made, Derrick de Kerckhove is at the core of a world think-tank dedicated to probing the rapid changes of our global village. The documentary Zulu Time follows this “wired man” in his […]
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Andrew McLuhan in Prince Edward County at the Bloomfield Branch Library beside the McLuhan collection. By Sharon Harrison County resident Andrew McLuhan spoke to a small audience at the Bloomfield branch library about growing up as the grandson of Marshall McLuhan, where he outlined the path he is navigating to continue his renowned grandfather’s important […]
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An Announcement by Howard R. Engel, Founding Director & C.E.O. of The Marshall McLuhan Initiative, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada On behalf of The Marshall McLuhan Initiative Board of Directors, I’m very pleased to report that Archives & Special Collections at the University of Manitoba (U. of M.), Marshall McLuhan’s first post-secondary alma mater where he earned a gold […]
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McLuhan Galaxy 
A Review of B.W. Powe’s Recent Book, Ladders Made of Water
By Allen Allen karlallenl@hotmail.com Another profound read from B.W. Powe that clarifies, better than any book he has written yet, what exactly he has been on about. I mean this in the best possible way. Describing our post-Covid era as a kind of nowhere land (or “now here land,” intensely of the present moment) where […]
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