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Every so often, a book comes to your attention that is so perfectly attuned to your interests that you have to wonder how it had escaped you for so long. Recently, I came across Richard Cavell’s McLuhan in Space, which is one such book for me. Cavell’s highly academic portrayal of McLuhan is refreshingly new, . . . → Read More: McLuhan In Space
The book's cover (left), and two pages expressing the idea that "We look at the present through a rear-view mirror." In the past month, I’ve stumbled across a couple of great finds at Pulp Fiction books on Main Street. First, I found Marshall McLuhan’s The Medium is the Massage (1967), which is the more accessible . . . → Read More: The Book: An Extension of the Eye? Sir Ken Robinson (Note: this post originally appeared on my personal blog.) Last night I attended Sir Ken Robinson’s talk at Vancouver’s Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education. During my bus ride home, I was surprised to find that many people had been tweeting about the talk using the hashtag #sirkenyvr, with some . . . → Read More: Sir Ken Robinson at the Dalai Lama Center (or on Twitter: #sirkenyvr) “Through the discovery yesterday of the railway, the motor car and the aeroplane, the physical influence of each man, formerly restricted to a few miles, now extends to hundreds of leagues or more. Better still: thanks to the prodigious biological event represented by the discovery of electro-magnetic waves, each individual finds himself henceforth (actively . . . → Read More: Who was Marshall McLuhan, and should we care about him in the 21st century? The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man by Marshall McLuhan What is The Gutenberg Galaxy? It is McLuhan’s term to describe the post-printing press world, and it is home to a whole lot of knowledge, thoughts, and ideas. In short, you might say that the galaxy consists of anything that’s ever been printed. The . . . → Read More: The Gutenberg Galaxy |
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