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The group, which calls itself the Marshall McLuhan/Finnegans Wake Reading Club, in Venice, California, started the difficult James Joyce book in 1995. They reached its final page during last October. What’s the connection between Marshall McLuhan and James Joyce’s writing? McLuhan was fascinated with the writings of James Joyce at a time that few in […]
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Professor Robert Logan asked me to circulate his announcement that: – The final and corrected version of <i>New Explorations</i> Vol 3 No 2 (2023) is now available at: – https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/nexj/issue/view/2787. For those not familiar with New Explorations journal, it is a revival of the journal Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, created in 1953 by Marshall McLuhan and Ted […]
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Paolo Granata is the director of the Media Ethics Lab at the University of Toronto. What makes us human in an age of AI? Professor Granata believes that AI – a new medium, a new language, a new information environment – holds the potential to enhance human agency and to reimagine the future of education. […]
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The Medium Is Still the Message
In fact, this may be truer than ever. KEY POINTS Marshall McLuhan’s idea that the medium is the message is apparent in the presidential candidates. How the candidates on the debate stage announced their candidacy says something about the image they project. DeSantis launches 2024 bid on Twitter Spaces, Ramaswamy on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” Marshall […]
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By Lars C. Grabbe, Andrew McLuhan, & Tobias Held (Eds.) The interplay of physical reality and media environments is getting enhanced by new technological innovations. We are living in the age of digital aesthetics and there is a need for individual, cultural, or social forms and variations of media literacy. This book seeks the limits […]
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Bob Logan in a familiar presentation stance The Medium and the Light Award for 2023 By Howard R. Engel The recipient of the twelfth Medium and the Light Award, in recognition of the ecumenical dimensions of the life and work of Marshall McLuhan, was presented on Thursday, June 22 as a concurrent session of the […]
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Only a few Canadian universities offer an undergraduate course on Marshall McLuhan and far fewer, maybe none, offer a course that covers the thought of both Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye. York University in North Toronto does, taught by the course’s creator B.W. Powe, who studied with both famous scholars at the University of Toronto. […]
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Harley Parker by Yousuf Karsh © Yousuf Karsh Estate The discovery of McLuhan collaborator Harley Parker’s Culture Box after 50 years should inspire other scholarly sleuths. BY GARY GENESKO | JUN 07, 2023 Many “lost” manuscripts are literary works, while lost audiovisual media run a close second. Then there is a lost work of media criticism from […]
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Professor B. W. Powe will be giving the Joyce-Bloomsday Talk via Zoom on from Cordoba, Spain on Monday, June 12th, at 2 pm to the Festival Bloomsday Montreal. His presentation will engage Ulysses/Finnegans Wake—day/night visions/Cosmopolis/ Zamizdat Publishing—Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, published at first in limited editions by a tiny press/Joyce’s rivering-seering insights into the Global […]
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McLuhan Galaxy 
Marshall McLuhan Fellow 2023 Jodesz Gavilan Speaking in Toronto on February 6
From Paolo Granata, Media Ethics Lab, University of St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto Hello folks! Join me on Tuesday FEB 6, for a special talk with Marshall McLuhan Fellow 2023 Jodesz Gavilan, investigative journalist, researcher, and podcast host. Jodesz Gavilan has been an investigative reporter and researcher for the independent news outlet Rappler since […]
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