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Marshall McLuhan: Philosopher-Poet or Prognosticator?
Peggy Curran of The Montreal Gazette asked me, Charles Acland and Will Straw about the legacy of Marshall McLuhan. This is what I said.
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Two Early Internet Theory Books
CommonSpace and FREE as in speech & beer, two Internet theory books that I wrote at the turn of the millennium, are now available as full-content PDFs.
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James Gleick’s The Information
My review of James Gleick’s new book, The Information, recently appeared in the Globe and Mail. Like all good storytellers, Gleick begins in the middle, with Claude Shannon …
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Sustaining Digital Scholarship and Culture
A report on the growing concern in the scholarly and cultural communities regarding the sustainability of Canada’s digital knowledge and heritage. Canada’s digital advantage is only of value if it can be carried into the future.
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Artists as RADAR: McLuhan Reading Poetry
McLuhan’s notion of Artists as RADAR underlines the importance of art not only to media studies, but to culture in general.
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The Ethically Incomplete Intellectual
A broadside commissioned by the 2010 Scream Literary Festival for their “Agents Provocateurs” theme.
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Finding Bern Porter
The amazing life of Bern Porter, from the cathode ray TV tube and the Manhattan Project to the perfection of found art and writing.
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McLuhan, Poetics and Christian Bök’s Xenotext (video)
On May 14, 2010, I delivered the inaugural lecture for McLuhan in Europe 2011 at the Manchester FutureEverything conference, on McLuhan, media poetics, and Christian Bök’s Xenotext Experiment.
