Archive for the ‘Ideas’ Category
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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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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By D.R. Thompson Depending on who you talk to, media theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) was either a visionary or a simplistic slogan-maker. Put another way, his catchy phrases such as ‘the medium is the message’, ‘global village’, ‘cool’ and ‘hot’, while all well-known and used, are not always truly understood by the masses that McLuhan so […]
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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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Review of LADDERS MADE OF WATER By Bill Kuhns May 6, 2023 What a stunning discovery! How do we counter the rise of a soon-to-become superior intelligence — A.I. – amplified and surrounded by other supernal threats: of Pandemic, war, fascism, and planetary meltdown? Powe proposes the wisest strategy I’ve yet encountered to our era’s many grave […]
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McLuhan Galaxy 
AI & the Future of Education by University of Toronto Professor Paolo Granata
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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