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A Tetrad, illustration by Andrew McLuhan As the College Printer at the Kelly Library, at the University of St Michael’s College, UofT, I’m heading up a team finalizing preparations for the launch on Monday, January 21 of the Canadian Fine Press Exhibition. Five University libraries are participating in the exhibition, opening their doors to show […]
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How books irrevocably changed culture, according to media philosopher Marshall McLuhan Explore McLuhan’s theory on print culture and its influential hold over civilization. By Mike Colarossi – December 5, 2018 Marshall McLuhan said the advent of printed books gave way to print culture, of which he believed went on to shape and mold Western culture’s […]
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This is a non-scholarly journalistic look back at Marshall McLuhan’s The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man. It is mostly an appreciation but it also includes some cutting comments about McLuhan’s “obscure” writing style and criticism of McLuhan’s “matrix” structure for the book. He should have read the page that is untitled and unpaginated that precedes […]
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Location: MSD – Münster School of Design, Leonardo-Campus 6 – Münster, Germany Events MSD – Münster School of Design Date/Time: 30. November – 01. December/All Day Keynote Speakers: Derrick de Kerckhove, Lars Elleström, Eric McLuhan and Göran Sonesson In the era of the so-called digitalization, a variety of multimodal technologies have a great impact on the structural […]
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The following publications previously announced on this blog that are available now are the following:- Explorations: Studies in Culture & Communication, Volumes 1 to 8 (1953 – 1957) Previously announced here with full description: https://goo.gl/CdOoeI Click on image for expanded view. “Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, principally edited by Edmund (“Ted”) Carpenter and Marshall […]
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From YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnHJfcCZfa8 An Analysis of Marshall McLuhan’s “Five Sovereign Fingers Taxed the Breath” (1955) By Donald F. Theall From Prelude to The Virtual Marshall McLuhan by Donald F. Theall, Montreal & Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press (2001), 10-11. An early example of how McLuhan actually developed his probes poetically is exemplified in a […]
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On February 11, 2016 Lance Strate informed the Media Ecology Association of the passing of Elizabeth Eisenstein with the following:- I have heard from a few different sources that Elizabeth Eisenstein, author of The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, and the abridged version, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, as well as The […]
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This is a conference that McLuhanists and media ecologists, among others, would be interested in. *an image from Sean Kernan, Secret Books BABEL Conference: OFF THE BOOKS: Making, Breaking, Binding, Burning, Leaving, Gathering The BABEL Working Group is a non-hierarchical scholarly collective and para-institutional desiring-assemblage. BABEL’s chief commitment is the cultivation of a more mindful […]
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The following essay is an astute and well-written essay by a student at Bangor University in Wales, UK. Marshall McLuhan said that “Gutenberg had, in effect, made every man a reader. Today, Xerox and other forms of reprography tend to make every man a publisher” (The Future of the Book (1972), in Understanding Me: Lectures & […]
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McLuhan Galaxy 
Introduction to Media Ecology: Thinkers, schools of thought, key concepts by Paolo Granata
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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