Resources on Marshall McLuhan

We are shaping the tools. And the tools are shaping us. –MML

Wikipedia: Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan "official site"
The Marshall McLuhan Center on Global Communications
tumblr.com/tagged/McLuhan/: my #McLuhan on tumblr

Bibliography

[via major studio 2]

Explorations, with Edmund Carpenter (1950s)
The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man (1951) – gingko
The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962) – amazon.de
Understanding Media (1964) – amazon.de, gingko
The Medium is the Message – amazon.de
The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects (1967) – gingko
War and Peace in the Global Village (1968) – gingko
From Cliché to Archetype (1970)
The McLuhan Marshalling Machine – Dictionary of Quotations

comprehansive bibliography at marshallmcluhan.com

Audio

The Medium is the Massage. Columbia Records, 1968 (LP /via]

on wayback machine: side 1, side 2
or McLuhan Galaxy LP68

Marshall McLuhan on the Dick Cavett Show in December 1970 /wayback machine: mp3: Marshall McLuhan appeared on the Dick Cavett Show in December of 1970 along with Truman Capote and Chicago Bears running back, Gayle Sayers. Both Capote and Sayers participated in the discussion with McLuhan.; This recording was made on reel-to-reel audio tape in 1970 and directly transferred to computer in 2005. Unfortunately, the exact date of the show was not noted, except that the show did take place before Christmas.; All commercials and breaks were removed from McLuhan's appearance. [via]
Speaking Freely hosted by Edwin Newman features Marshall McLuhan 4 Jan 1971, Public Broadcasting/N.E.T. (~~mp3~~) /wayback machine: mp3: "Where would you look for the message in an electric light?" Spend nearly an hour with University of Toronto professor of English, Marshall McLuhan, as he discusses electronic technology, transportation, and communications. Also probing the issues of acoustic and personal space, McLuhan expresses his thoughts about print media and where it's headed. Author of several books including The Medium is the Message, Canadian-born McLuhan was also director of the Center for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. Originally aired on PBS-TV, 4 January, 1971 at 8:00 p.m. (Philadelphia, PA area), McLuhan appeared on "Speaking Freely," hosted by NBC's Edwin Newman. [via]

Theatre of the Visual Arts 1971 – Marshall McLuhan, W.A. Auden, Buckminister Fuller & Jack MacGowran (32')

~~Marshall McLuhan 1966: Media, Art, Culture and Global Village (44')~~

Soundcloud

~~Marshall Mcluhan discusses the "new" radio (1970) 3:54~~
~~Marshall McLuhan, what are you doin'? 51:47 radio documentary~~
Marshall McLuhan- Interview, Jun 1 1966 (VOA 'Perspective') By Eric Goldman Of Princeton U 31:21
MML Remix 23'

Video

People & Community

Derrick De Kerckhove: ~~McLuhan Program, U of Toronto~~ – Text, Context and Hypertext, three conditions of language, three conditions of mind – The Architecture of Intelligence. – Hybrid Symposium at Ars Electronica 2005 – on Internet Pathologies (2009)

Mark Federman

What is the Meaning of The Medium is the Message? What is the (Next) Message? (blog)

Presentations

Auswirkungen neuer Medien, 2013 /prezi

à propos

~~To the Best of Our Knowledge: Marshall McLuhan at 100,~~ 52' by Jan Fleming
~~Channeling McLuhan. The Wired Interview with the magazine's patron saint. By Gary Wolf~~
Co-Evolution of Humans and Tools, mprove at reboot 11, 2009

[TV] can teach, it can illuminate, yes and it even can inspire. But it can do so only to the extend that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise its nothing but wires and lights in a box. –Edward R. Murrow, 1958

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