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Probe: Post-Literacy Flips Into Digital Orality
No full textProbe: Post-Literacy Flips Into Digital Oralit
Celestial Wordplay A review of the book ÆROTOMANIA: THE BOOK OF LUMENATIONS
No full textCelestial Wordplay A review of the book ÆROTOMANIA: THE BOOK OF LUMENATION
Semiotics from a Media Ecology Point of View and McLuhan’s Notion that “The Medium is the Message”: A Probe
No full textSemiotics from a Media Ecology Point of View and McLuhan’s Notion that “The Medium is the Message”: A Prob
Review of Sheila J. Nayar’s Dante’s Sacred Poem: Flesh and the Centrality of the Eucharist to the “Divine Comedy” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014).
No full textReview of Sheila J. Nayar’s Dante’s Sacred Poem: Flesh and the Centrality of the Eucharist to the “Divine Comedy” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014)
Review of Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023)
No full textReview of Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023
A Review of McLuhan in Reverse by Robert K. Logan (2021)
No full textA Review of McLuhan in Reverse by Robert K. Logan (2021
The Visionary Moment: On the Work of B. W. Powe
No full textThe Visionary Moment: On the Work of B. W. Pow
Review: Fran O’Rourke’s Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas
No full textIn my review, I highlight the Irish philosopher and singer Fran O’Rourke’s new massively learned and massively researched and admirably lucid 2022 book Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas. However, I discuss his account of Western philosophy in the larger conceptual framework of media ecology by drawing on the work of the Canadian Renaissance specialist and media ecology theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980; Ph.D. in English, Cambridge University, 1943), the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955), and the American-born Joyce specialist and media ecology theorist Eric McLuhan (1942-2018; Ph.D. in English, University of Dallas, 1982)
God as a Medium: A Dialogue between Albert Camus and Marshall McLuhan
No full textThis paper discusses the idea that the deity or the divine figure serves as a medium or technology. It does so by establishing a dialogue between Albert Camus and Marshall McLuhan. There are two conceptual pillars to sustain the theoretical framework undertaken in this work: the Camusian notion of philosophical suicide and McLuhan’s aphorism “the medium is the message.” Once it is understood that the idea of God is an abundant aggregator of elements that represents all values of the creed, it is also possible to understand that it defines a relationship between oppressors and those that are oppressed. Since this figure came to be used as a support for religions to act, it has worked as a coercive device as well as it has carried all symbolic aspects of its tenet and have mediated the aforementioned relation between dominators and the dominate