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WHERE HAVE ALL THE READERS GONE, LONG TIME AGO?
No full textWHERE HAVE ALL THE READERS GONE, LONG TIME AGO
THE 21St CENTURY’S MOST IMPORTANT ORIGIN STORY: A Review of Wisdom Weavers: The Lives and Thought of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan, by Tom Cooper
No full textTHE 21St CENTURY’S MOST IMPORTANT ORIGIN STORY: A Review of Wisdom Weavers: The Lives and Thought of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan, by Tom Coope
WHY OVERABUNDANT COMMUNICATION BACKFIRES: A review of Superbloom: How the Technologies of Connection Tore Us Apart by Nicholas Carr
No full textWHY OVERABUNDANT COMMUNICATION BACKFIRES: A review of Superbloom: How the Technologies of Connection Tore Us Apart by Nicholas Car
A Review of Stuart Kauffman’s A World Beyond Physics and Its Parallel with McLuhan’s Reversal of Cause and Effect.
No full textA review of Stuart Kauffman’s A World Beyond Physics is made and its
parallels with McLuhan’s reversal of cause and effect is made
Call for Articles for Issue #3 of New Explorations (NExJ), and for the Supplementary Blog at newexplorations.net
No full textCall for Articles for Issue #3 of New Explorations (NExJ), and for the Supplementary Blog at newexplorations.ne
Extending the Inner Touch: Intimations of Digital Secondary Literacy in McLuhan and Ong
No full textThis paper examines the psychic effects of digital environments by re-evaluating the work of Walter Ong and, especially, Marshall McLuhan in the context of Aristotelian and Thomist psychology. The paper argues that, due to the high-definition logical stress of computer technologies, the digital environment obsolesces the psychic attitudes implicated in what McLuhan described as the electronic retrieval of “acoustic space.” In contrast to, what Walter Ong termed, the “secondary orality” of radio and television, I argue that digital technology constitutes an environment of “secondary literacy,” a term that Ong introduced in his later years but did not develop. In order to understand the new sensory and psychological ratios constituted by digital environments, I examine McLuhan’s interpretation of the “primary literacy” of the medieval scribal environment as grounded in the doctrine of the common sense or “sensus communis.” Through evaluating Aristotle’s and Aquinas’ association of the common sense with tactility, I argue that the “secondary literacy” of the digital environment extends the medieval sense of “inner tactility”—or the manner in which experience is generated based on the interface between sensory perception and intellectual judgment. Finally, by arguing that the digital environment simulates a multiplicity of “lifeworlds” or “object-environments” based on ratios of “inner tactility,” I examine some fundamental ways in which the hermeneutic methods of Ong and McLuhan presage the phenomenology of secondary literacy
McLuhan and Carpenter: Tricksters at the Margins: A Postscript to Play Attention
No full text“It’s misleading to suppose there’s any basic difference between education and entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibilities of looking into the matter” (Carpenter & McLuhan 1960, 3)
A Short History of the Journal Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication
No full textA history of the journal Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication from its
founding in 1953 by Edmund Carpenter and Marshall McLuhan to its last published
issue in 1972 is presented