The Resonating Interval:
Exploring the Process of the Tetrad
By Anthony Hempell
Links to McLuhan Sites
Thanks to everyone who has McLuhan links on their pages (I have plundered mercilessly!).
Special thanks to Mat X and Daniel Chandler, who did most of the legwork.
McLuhan Probes
Home of the McLuhan ListServ and other fine goodies. This site is one of the oldest
McLuhan sites around, and is sponsored by the Herbert Marshall McLuhan Foundation
and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
The Hot & Cool McLuhan Connection
"The McLuhan Connection is
the result of over a
decade of work and
preparation to update and
revitalize the work of
the late
Dr. Marshall McLuhan;
to develop insights and
projections involving the
interface between culture
and technology for the
1990's -- and beyond." The zany graphics will also hurt your eyes, so beware!
'Hot'
and 'Cool' Media: Gordon Gow (in Critical Mass)
Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media (1964) introduced the probes hot
and cool as
properties of all media. Gordon Gow takes these concepts
out of the cryogenic coffin and tries to work them into a contemporary recipe.
Introduction to
McLuhan
Pam Murray's short biography of McLuhan, for the beginner (from
Critical Mass)
Theories of Media Influence
Daniel Chandler's list
of communication theory sites... includes McLuhan
and lots of other great links to communications and media-related
pages.
'Digital Humanism: The Processed World of Marshall McLuhan'
"Marshall McLuhan was never the technotopian that contemporary technophiles like
to portray. To read McLuhan is to discover a thinker who had a decidedly ambivalent perspective
on technoculture. Thus, while McLuhan might be the patron saint of technotopians, his
imagination is also the memory that should haunt them." Arthur Kroker
deconstructs the myths...(from CTheory)
Marshall McLuhan bio #2
Another biography, from Samuel Ebersole's Media Determinism in Cyberspace web site.
Marshall McLuhan bio #3
Yet another biography, from Mindy McAdams' Hypertext Breakdown interactive thesis.
Marshall McLuhan bio #4
Something about McLuhan breeds biographies. This one unfortunately includes a blink tag
(boo, hiss!) ;-)
A good effort from Vedat Nommaz.
Marshall McLuhan's 'Global Village': Benjamin Symes
Like much of
McLuhan's concept of the Global Villiage is vast and poetic, but if we are to
believe his rhetoric we must have an understanding of
what he means. Benjamin Symes explains...
