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McLuhan Galaxy
… The origins of a media ecology of hope in the parallelisms of Marshall McLuhan and Walter Ong are telling. Religious commonalities loom large: their personal histories, the use of the Protestant tradition as a foil, and the centrality of both Ignatian spirituality and the Eucharist in the ordering of their personal spiritual lives. The two men met in the early 1940s when the young Canadian McLuhan, then completing his Cambridge doctorate on Thomas Nashe, supervised Ong’s M.A. thesis on the sprung rhyme of Gerard Manley Hopkins at St. Louis University. McLuhan was only one year older than his student, and their relationship, as described in Ong’s 1969 letter to Professor Walker Gibson , was an intellectual and spiritual friendship not wholly devoid of competition.
Creative Review - Boat returns from Detroit
Last time we spoke to the nomadic Boat magazine, they were off to Detroit to write, edit and design their latest issue. Now back in the UK, creative director Davey Spens told us how it all went... In September Spens described the thinking behind Boat and how the team (Spens, his wife Erin – the editor – and a host of assembled creatives including designer Luke Tonge) managed to make a magazine about Sarajevo, while stationed in the city for several weeks. I caught up with Spens on email to ask him about their recent experience of the second place the magazine has called home: Detroit. How did you find Detroit and its creative community? Was it what you'd expected?