"the matrix of a reminiscing cogitation, shuffling and collating ‘things’ stored in a random-access memory scheme"
Lance Strate‘s “The Medium is… (A Pecha Kucha)” You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video I’ve not heard of a pecha kucha before, which seems to be a 6 minute 40 second presentation in which 20 slides are shown, each for 20 seconds.
Mon, November 14 2011 » Marshall McLuhan, Media Ecology, Teaching Resources » 1 Comment
Fordham’s Communications and Media Studies department is holding a McLuhan Centenary Symposium on September 17 that is free and open to the public. An interesting lineup of talks and a screening of the 1961 television program The Gutenberg Galaxy.
Mon, August 29 2011 » Conferences, Marshall McLuhan, Media Ecology » No Comments
WYNC’s “The Medium is the Massage: Celebrating Marshall McLuhan’s Legacy“ The Guardian‘s “The Big Idea Podcast: The Medium Is the Message“ To the Best of Our Knowledge‘s “Marshall McLuhan at 100“ The Globe and Mail‘s “The Return of Marshall McLuhan“
Thu, July 21 2011 » Marshall McLuhan, Media Ecology, Teaching Resources » No Comments
Put together for his centennial this year, a site containing a large collection of McLuhan videos, Marshall McLuhan Speaks, has been compiled. Unfortunately, the site doesn’t include any information about the sponsors or compilers of the site, but this email message, sent by Michael O’Connor Clarke, indicates that McLuhan’s daughter Stephanie McLuhan helped with the [...]
Thu, January 27 2011 » Marshall McLuhan, Media Ecology, Teaching Resources » No Comments
I do indeed say that writing is artificial, and maybe one of our divergences is due to my not having explained that I do not consider being artificial necessarily bad at all, but rather of itself good. Nothing is more human than artifice. Only human beings can make products that are truly artificial–extensions into the [...]
Mon, August 23 2010 » Marshall McLuhan, Media Ecology, Teaching » 2 Comments
Having done a recent reading roundup, I know you’re all dying to know what’s in my immediate reading future, so, without further ado: The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought, Ed. Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. Currently reading. Yes, I do actually read scholarship. While I am afraid of getting lost in metaphor theory, as I [...]
Sat, June 26 2010 » Cognitive Studies, Marshall McLuhan, Reading, Science Fiction/Fantasy » No Comments
The winter 2009 issue of the Antigonish Review has a piece by Eric McLuhan on his father’s use of James Joyce. Quite useful for discussions of The Medium Is the Massage. Also helpful is the last minute or so of this clip from the documentary McLuhan’s Wake. McLuhan starts talking about Joyce about 3 minutes [...]
Mon, April 12 2010 » Marshall McLuhan, Teaching Resources » No Comments
McLuhan once again. Or, more specifically, The Medium is the Massage, around which I am yet again centering multiple courses. (What can I say? The book rewards rereading.) I’ve just read Kevin Brooks’ “More ‘Seriously Visible’ Reading: McCloud, McLuhan, and the Visual Language of The Medium is the Massage,”1 available for download from http://www.ncte.org/cccc/ccc/issues/v61-1. As [...]
Wed, February 3 2010 » Comics/Anime/Manga, Marshall McLuhan, Media Ecology, Rhetoric and Composition, Teaching Resources » 2 Comments
The first is “The Medium is the Message” from the Canadian Heritage Minute series: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video and the other two are mashups by John Zimmerman: “The Medium is the Message” You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video “The Medium is [...]
Thu, January 14 2010 » Marshall McLuhan, Media Ecology, Teaching Resources » No Comments
McLuhan Remix is three-part video essay with supporting web site created by Jamie O’Neil aka Kurt Weibers, a video/performance artist and assistant professor of digital media arts at Canisius College in Buffalo. Below I include the McLuhan Remix: Prologue and first paragraph of the web site intro. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to [...]
Sun, February 15 2009 » Computers and Writing, Digital Studies/New Media, Marshall McLuhan » 1 Comment
