Extrapolating on McLuhan: How MediaEnvironments of the Given, the Represented,and the Induced Shape and Reshape Our Sensorium Andrey Miroshnichenko Andrey.Mir70@gmail.com Independent Scholar, Kingston, ON K7M 2W8, Canada; Academic Editors: Robert K. Logan and Marcin J. Schroeder Philosophies 2016, 1, 170–189 186 Abstract: The article develops Marshall McLuhan’s approach to the interplay between media, the sensorium, and reality. McLuhan’s concepts of “acoustic space” …
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A SCHOOLMAN’S GUIDE TO MARSHALL McLUHAN
By JOHN M. CULKIN, S.J. (1967, March). A schoolman’s guide to Marshall McLuhan. The Saturday Review, 51-53, 70-72 Director of the Center for Communications, Fordham University EDUCATION, a seven-year-old assures me, is “how kids learn stuff.” Few definitions are as satisfying. It includes all that is essential – a who, a what, and a process. It …
O meio e a luz: reflexões sobre a religião
Introdução por Eric McLuhan A estatura de nenhum homem é aumentada pelo acúmulo de mitos, e nada é prejudicado da genuína grandeza histórica pela consideração do lado puramente humano de um homem. Heinrich Fichtenau on Charlemagne (The Carolingian Empire – Toronto: University Press, em associação com a Medieval Academy of America, 1978,82,86, página 25) …
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O católico Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan era muito reticente sobre seu catolicismo.Se você verificar sua Bibliografia Oficial, o único livro que toca no assunto foi escrito por seu filho Eric, cerca de vinte anos após sua morte.O meio e a luz: reflexões sobre religião e mídiaEditado por Eric McLuhan e Jacek Szklarek com uma introdução de Eric McLuhan. Wipf …
The Mystical Side of Marshall McLuhan
By: Peter Feuerherd June 15, 2017 Communication theorists don’t usually merit international celebrity, with one giant exception. During the 1960s, and until his death in 1980, Canadian professor and author Marshall McLuhan improbably became part of cocktail party discourse and a household name. McLuhan, born on July 21, 1911, converted to Roman Catholicism in 1937. After attending …
The Catholic Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan was very reticent about his Catholicism. If you check his Official Bibliography, the only book which touches the subject was written by his son Eric, some twenty years after his death. The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media Edited by Eric McLuhan and Jacek Szklarek with an introduction …
The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion
Introduction by Eric McLuhan No man’s stature is increased by the accumulation of myths, and nothing is detracted from genuine historical greatness by the consideration of a man’s purely human side. Heinrich Fichtenau on Charlemagne (The Carolingian Empire – Toronto: University Press, in association with the Medieval Academy of America, 1978,82,86, page 25) Perhaps …
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The Medium and the Light
By Vialogue Introduction For many hundreds of the years covered in his investigations, the antagonists were clergy. And their debates concerned not simply this or that idea or doctrine but rather the very tools of intellectual endeavour, the nature and seriousness of philosophy and literature, and the techniques of interpretation and their spheres of application. …
Discarnate Man
The Rise and Fall of Nature by Marshall McLuhan “At the speed of light, minus his physical body, man is discarnate, and discarnate man is not related to ”Natural Law’,” A basic principle in all media observation concerns the effect of putting one medium inside another. Siegfried Giedion pointed out the origin of visual space as occurring when …
Passion and Precision: The Faith of Marshall McLuhan
The Catholic Church does not depend on human wisdom or human strategies for survival. All the best intentions in the world can’t destroy the Catholic Church! It is indestructible, even as a human institution. It may once again undergo a terrible persecution and so on. But that’s probably what it needs. – Marshall McLuhan Precision This is a …
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Marshall McLuhan & Gutenberg 