Posts Tagged ‘culture’
Michael Tad Edmunds (Nov. 5, 1941 – Jan. 13, 2024) Michael Tad Edmunds, husband, father, grandfather, friend, colleague, neighbour, singer, photographer, student of McLuhan, and the builder and first director of The Information Commons, died at Mt. Sinai Hospital on Saturday, January 13, 2024, from Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC). He was 82. The doctors […]
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By Jodesz Gavilan 2023 Marshall McLuhan Fellow Notes from her Lecture in Canada 2024 Last year, I met a mother who lost three loved ones in one night. Her husband, son-in-law, and brother were killed by unknown men inside their own home. They were begging for mercy for them to be spared, but they were repeatedly […]
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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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B.W. Powe, Author & Associate Professor The Medium and the Light Award for 2022 The recipient of the eleventh Medium and the Light Award, in recognition of the ecumenical dimensions of the life and work of Marshall McLuhan, was presented on Thursday, July 7 virtually, as part of the 23rd Media Ecology Association (MEA) Convention […]
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New Explorations Vol. 2 No. 3 (2022), A Special Issue: Digital Humanism & the Future of Humanity
Special Issue: Digital Humanism and the Future of Humanity This special issue edited by Wolfgang Hofkirchner and Hans-Jörg Kreowski contains full paper proceedings of the workshop organised by the Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society, Vienna, Austria, together with the Forum Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibility, Bremen, Germany, held at the online […]
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Northern Sparks Innovation, Technology Policy, and the Arts in Canada from Expo 67 to the Internet Age By Michael Century An “episode of light” in Canada sparked by Expo 67 when new art forms, innovative technologies, and novel institutional and policy frameworks emerged together. OVERVIEW Understanding how experimental art catalyzes technological innovation is often prized yet […]
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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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Jacques Ellul (1912 – 1994) Dear Ellul Society Friend Our Montreal Conference on The Arts, Culture and the Environment in a Technological Society: Revisiting Jacques Ellul is less than three months away! Location: McGill University, downtown Montreal. We are excited to have a number of arts-related events scheduled in tandem with the conference, including film, art exhibitions and music […]
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Scott Richmond, shown with his cat Mush, says that Marshall McLuhan saw artists as people who understand the impact technology has on how we experience the world. He often collaborated with people making media. Richmond wants “to situate the McLuhan Centre as a much-needed community and research hub for scholarship in humanistic media studies at […]
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The Passing of Father John Pungente, SJ, Media Educator (1939 – 2023)
Father John Pungente, SJ Fr. John Pungente died December 6, 2023 in René Goupil Residence, Pickering, Ontario. He was in his 84th year and a Jesuit for 66 years. He was born in Port Arthur, Ontario, but grew up in Brandon, Manitoba. He was the son of John Pungente and Mary Wikien. John entered the […]
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