Harley Parker: The McLuhan of the Museum Published by the University of Alberta Press, Edmonton By Gary Genosko This is the first book about the life and work of Harley Parker (1915-1992), C…| McLuhan Galaxy
by Edward A. Comor (Editor)Lance Strate (Series Editor)The above photograph of Harold Innis has been little knownor seen before. In 1952, a terminally ill Harold Innis asked his closest intellectual confidant, Tom Easterbrook, to teach his signature course on communications on his behalf. With Innis’s premature death, the course turned out to be both Innis’s final course and […]| McLuhan Galaxy
Howard R. Engel, president and CEO of The Marshall McLuhan Initiative (MMI), and Esther Juce, MMI treasurer, stand in front of the house where Marshall McLuhan once lived at 507 Gertrude Avenue fro…| McLuhan Galaxy
By Thomas (Tom) Cooper, PhD In the age of Artificial Intelligence, social media, and anti-social media, arguably the two thinkers who most alerted us to the real “influencers” of our day – the med…| McLuhan Galaxy
By Esther G. Juce 5 November, 2024 It all began when Bill Jefferson, Marshall McLuhan Initiative (MMI) Board Member, was opining the fact that we as the MMI Board didn’t meet face to face. Bursting…| McLuhan Galaxy
The Medium & the Light: Reflections on Religion, published by Stoddart Publishing in Toronto (1999), provided the inspiration for The Medium & the Light Award. It was edited by Eric McLuhan…| McLuhan Galaxy
Alexander Kuskis, PhD (University of Toronto) By Howard R. Engel, Founding Director & C.E.O. The Marshall McLuhan Initiative Inc. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada The recipient of the thirteenth Med…| McLuhan Galaxy
Alice Munro (1931 – 2024) By B.W. Powe And now I’m meditating on Alice Munro’s passing. She left us at age 92, after a long period in dementia. One of the greatest short story writers. I’ve wanted to say something about her for years. You know—weird thing—I didn’t read her closely for a long time. […]| McLuhan Galaxy
The Medium & the Light (1999) book, the title of which was chosen to be the name of The Medium & the Light Award Although he died in 1980, he had foreseen the Internet and had warned against the excesses of technologies that could divorce from our material existence and threaten our very humanity, technologies […]| McLuhan Galaxy
Michael Tad Edmunds (Nov. 5, 1941 – Jan. 13, 2024) Michael Tad Edmunds, husband, father, grandfather, friend, colleague, neighbour, singer, photographer, student of McLuhan, and the builder and first director of The Information Commons, died at Mt. Sinai Hospital on Saturday, January 13, 2024, from Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC). He was 82. The doctors […]| McLuhan Galaxy
