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This site is written in Portuguese and English. This is due to the fact that much of the material does not exist in Portuguese and initially it appears in English, and I translated it as I had time.
The site is basically structured and contains most of the information needed for its intended purpose, which is to elucidate the relationship of the Gutenberg Invention with the way we are used to deal with information until the Internet emerged. The way to navigate it, is the following:

Introduction

1 – Why McLuhan and Gutenberg

• 1.1 – The Gutenberg Galaxy
• 1.2 – Complete list of Tablets
• 1.3 – McLuhan Mosaic Style
• 1.4 – The Gutenberg Galaxy– User’s Manual
• 1.5 – Other tablets discussing Gutenberg
• 1.6 – The Medium is the message
• 1.6.0 – The Medium is the Massage
• 1.6.1 – A SCHOOLMAN’S GUIDE TO MARSHALL McLUHAN
• 1.7 – The Catholic Marshall McLuhan
• 1.7.1 – The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion
• 1.7.2 – The Medium and the Light
• 1.7.3 – Passion and Precision: The Faith of Marshall McLuhan
• 1.7.4 – Discarnate Man
• 1.7.5 – The Mystical Side of Marshall McLuhan

2 – To see and perceive what do you see

• 2.1 – The case of the Africans and the chicken
• 2.2 – The case of Orality
• 2.3 – Printing power and literacy

3 – Other possibilities of perception on what we see.

• 3.1 – The case of photography and two dimensional images  
• 3.2 – The case of print visual culture  
• 3.3 – The case of perspective or point of view
• 3.4 – The case of perspective as it was in olden Greece
• 3.5 – The case of illuminations

4 – Why visual acoustic cultures do not have perspective

5 – Where to find illuminations and Gutenberg Bibles

6 – The Pierport Morgan Library in NY

• 6.1 – Illuminations analysis    
• 6.2 – Gutenberg Bible detail  
• 6.3 – The Gutenberg achievement as seen by the Pierport Morgan Library 
• 6.4 – Printing, Nationalism and Modern States
• 6.5 – Printing Power and its implication in Literacy
• 6.6 – Printing Power and Christianity

7 – Speculation and Reflection on McLuhan in the 21st century

8 – What if he was right?

9 – Comprehensive McLuhan

10 – McLuhan’s Wake

11 – Why we are entering an era similar to the invention of Gutenberg?

12 – THE PLACE OF MARSHALL McLUHAN IN THE LEARNING OF HIS TIMES