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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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By Thomas Cooper PhD, Emeritus Professor, Emerson College When you are reading LADDERS MADE OF WATER, you are immersing yourself in one of the great poetic minds of our century. I love Powe’s writing and hope you’ll buy this book. Both of us were students of Marshall McLuhan, and B.W’s writing about the Man of […]
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To Marshall McLuhan You were right, dear professor, the great vortex came in time whirling us into the pond in which Narcissus saw his beauteous reflection. No longer an extension of the hand, the mouth, the ear, no longer a tool, […]
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Me. You. Us. Them. by Douglas Coupland,Hans Ulrich Obrist,Shumon Basar 17 August 2020 Have you wondered why the inside of your head feels so strange these days? We think you’re morphing into something else. We call this “The Extreme Self.” What follows is a sample from our next book. It charts the transformations taking place in […]
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Bill Kuhns Bill Kuhns is already known to some in the McLuhan community of interest from his book, The Post-Industrial Prophets (1971), which contains a chapter on McLuhan, and the “assembly” he did with Eric McLuhan in 2003, The Book of Probes. As an independent McLuhan scholar, he has been circling McLuhan in ever tighter-circles, all his […]
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Hugh Kenner (1923-2003) By Michael Dirda, Critic, October 10, 2018 “Questioning Minds: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner” has been for me, and will be for many others, the most intellectually exhilarating work published in 2018. In roughly 1,000 letters, mainly from the 1960s and ’70s, two of the great literary polymaths of the second […]
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The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein & the Discourse of Technology
What do Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, media theorist Marshall McLuhan and Canadian popular culture have in common? This is the question that Mark A. McCutcheon seeks to answer in his new book, The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology, published in 2018 by Athabasca University Press. In this unique and penetrating analysis, McCutcheon […]
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Leonard Cohen (1934 – 2016) This posting is obviously not about Marshall McLuhan, but I feel confident that the late great media visionary would approve. B.W. Powe, who was a student of McLuhan at the University of Toronto in the fall of 1978 in his last offering of his English 1000 graduate course, Media & Society, […]
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Monday Night Seminar Poetry: The Still Point of the Turning World LOCATION: McLuhan Centre for Culture & Technology, 39A Queens Park Crescent East off 121 St. Joseph St., Toronto, ON M5S 2C3 Monday Night Seminar: Monday, February 13th, 6:00 – 8:00 PM Description: Join Toronto’s poet laureate Anne Michaels […]
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Robert Logan’s Review of a New Book by Adeena Karasick Titled Massaging the Medium: Seven Pechakuchas
A Review of Adeena Karasick’s Book, Massaging the Medium: Seven Pechakuchas – By Robert K. Logan Although as the editor of the journal New Explorations, I have assigned the review of Adeena Karasick’s book Massaging the Medium: Seven Pechakuchas to Steve Hicks, I decided to also review her book, as I so enjoyed reading it. […]
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