Category: LOGOS

A series on McLuhan’s analysis of language that resonates.

LOGOS: McLuhan Among the Gnostics Part IV

April 2, 2023 / Clinton / 0 Comments

Two weekends ago I was given the chance to speak publicly in Boston at The Free Software Foundation’s LibrePlanet 2023 convention thanks to the wonderful followers of my work here, on Twitter, and my YouTube channel. Since then, I’ve lost all taste for the lonely reading of scripts into my webcam, and so am foregoing a recording of this fourth installment in my series on Logos. I will work diligently to ensure that more actual, real, embodied public speaking opportunites present themselves in the future that I might share here with you. Thanks again to everyone who sponsored my trip!

Part IV: Analysis of The Age of Advertising

The 1953 article Age of Advertising, not available online for public reading before today, apparently, was written at at turning point in McLuhan’s strategy for writing to the public. I …

LOGOS: McLuhan Among the Gnostics III

March 10, 2023 / Clinton / 0 Comments

Welcome to the third installment of Logos! I’m creating this series to fundraise for my upcoming trip to Boston, to aid the fight for our collective freedom at LibrePlanet 2023. Many thanks go out to Duncan, Leon, Gia, and Dmitriy. With their help, I’ve got a place to stay for the trip. More on that later. Last week, I promised you an installment on Embodiment. Well, 3000 words later, I’m not there yet! You’ll have to forgive my following the flow of how, it seems, the story here must proceed.

Part Three: Prufrock

In the last instalment of LOGOS, we considered Wyndham Lewis’ merger of the Time School with the approach of the Space School. Lewis, like the anthropologists from which so much of his work derived, immersed himself in society without becoming part of it. All the better to …

LOGOS: McLuhan Among the Gnostics I & II

February 27, 2023 / Clinton / 0 Comments

Part I: History of the Logos

Logos against forces of the Occult!

I’m trying to get to Boston mid-March to speak at the Free Software Foundation’s annual conference, LibrePlanet 2023. We must understand, and be in control of our computers, not vice versa. If you’d like to help fund my trip, I’m welcoming contributions at my PayPal account. Or shoot an email to clinton@ this website’s domain name! You’ll be thanked in the next installment of this series, part III!

Framing McLuhan

Last year, I decided making internet videos on McLuhan would be counter-productive. His books and public speeches are like poetry. You can’t summarize them, abstract from them. That kills them dead, results in “theories” or “philosophies” or “concepts” like every other thinker he’s counteracting, undercutting, running circles around. Because you’re reading McLuhan, you’re …