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The McLuhan Dimension

"History is a deep and complicated puzzle— especially when it involves more dimensions than time." — Introduction to a novella in Analog Science Fiction "Annenberg Hall" at Harvard…

Through the Vanishing Point*

Marshall McLuhan in "Annie Hall" — "You know nothing of my work." Related material —  "I need a photo opportunity I want a shot at redemption Don't want to end…

Brightness at Noon

Occultation according to McLuhan Marshall McLuhan writing to Ezra Pound  on Dec. 21, 1948— "The American mind is not even close to being amenable to the ideogram principle as yet….

Art, Jung, Toronto

Related art— Midnight's Icons, Faust in Toronto, and… McLuhan and the Four Diamonds (Wikipedia figure) "Visually, a tetrad can be depicted as  four diamonds forming an X…." "…

Sunday Review

The Sunday New York Times  today— This suggests… The Elusive Small Idea— Part I: McLuhan and the Seven Snow Whites Part II (from "Marshall, Meet Bagger," July 29):…

Marshall, Meet Bagger

Marshall McLuhan writing to Ezra Pound on Dec. 21, 1948— "The American mind is not even close to being amenable to the ideogram principle as yet.  The reason…

Absolute Ambition

"It's my absolute ambition that you are touched to the core of your being with the content…." — Julie Taymor on Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark  (Playbill video,…

Go Ask Alice

McLuhan in Space  by Richard Cavell— As the word "through" in the title of Through the Vanishing Point □ hints… key reference points for McLuhan and Parker in…

Gameplayers of the Academy

New Game In memory of a Jesuit who died on February 22 (see yesterday's "For the Ides of March")– “The Game in the Ship cannot be approached as…

Annals of Philosophy

The Medium is the Message Marshall McLuhan From the Wikipedia article on Marshall McLuhan– From yesterday— (Click images for some background.) Related material: Feast of St. Louis, 2003,…