McLuhan Misunderstood: Setting the Record Straight by Robert K. Logan « McLuhan Galaxy. My good friend, colleague and former professor Bob Logan has given me permission to publish his lecture McLuhan Misunderstood (version March 2, 2011) in its entirety here.
As a colleague of Marshall McLuhan and writing collaborator, Bob enjoyed personal access to the man and his ideas, which gives him the ability to correct widely held misunderstandings about one of Canada’s greatest intellectuals……..AlexK Robert Logan McLuhan Misunderstood: Setting the Record Straight Robert K. Logan - logan@physics.utoronto.ca Introduction Marshall McLuhan was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20 th century and probably the most misunderstood scholar of his time. Whether one agrees with McLuhan or is critical of him all would agree that he is perhaps one of the most enigmatic and misunderstood scholars of the twentieth century.
. • I don’t pretend to understand my stuff. . • I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say. • You don’t like those ideas? • Do you think my fallacy is all wrong? P. Untitled. McLuhan's Philosophy "There is a deep-seated repugnance in the human breast against understanding the processes in which we are involved.
Such understanding involves far too much responsibility for our actions. " -- Marshall McLuhan "When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself. Anybody moving into a new world loses identity...So loss of identity is something that happens in rapid change. -- McLuhan, quoted in Forward Through The Rearview Mirror I. II. III. IV. V. II. 1. 2. McLuhan's Philosophy of Media. Celebrating the Life and Work of Marshall McLuhan. Harold Innis. Harold Adams Innis (/ˈɪnɪs/; November 5, 1894 – November 8, 1952) was a Canadian professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media, communication theory and Canadian economic history.
The affiliated Innis College at the University of Toronto is named for him. Despite his dense and difficult prose, many scholars consider Innis one of Canada's most original thinkers. He helped develop the staples thesis, which holds that Canada's culture, political history and economy have been decisively influenced by the exploitation and export of a series of "staples" such as fur, fish, wood, wheat, mined metals and fossil fuels.[1] Innis laid the basis for scholarship that looked at the social sciences from a distinctly Canadian point of view. Innis also tried to defend universities from political and economic pressures. Rural roots[edit] Early life[edit] The one-room schoolhouse in Otterville, officially known as S.S.#1 South Norwich. From Marshall and Me. Philip Marchand - - - Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger.
Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger Random House of Canada (Toronto) Ticknor & Fields (Boston) The definitive biography of the great communications guru of the 60s and the 70s.
The book treats with equal lucidity and liveliness the idiosyncratic personal life and the idiosyncratic thought of McLuhan. A revised edition with a new foreword by Neil Postman was published in 1998, by Vintage Canada (Toronto) and the MIT Press (Cambridge). Foreign editions include the 1998 German edition published by DVA, translated by Martin Baltes, Fritz Böhler, Rainer Höltschl and Jürgen Reuß, and the 2003 Chinese edition published by China Renmin University Press.
Awards Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (1990 British Columbia Book Prizes) Floyd S. Reviews "Delightfully readable and thorough biography. " "The best - I might almost say the only good - precis of McLuhan's thought that I have ever read. " "Long overdue. "Philip Marchand's tracing of (McLuhan's) life is a triumph. " "A terrific biography. "