The McLuhan Newsletter

Marshall McLuhan’s Top Recommendation

"Hoick!" (McLuhan's word of advice on how to escape the media maelstrom.)

Nov 11 • 

Andrew McLuhan

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August 2025

Is that an anti-environment in your pocket?

A different kind of hardware, a different kind of review.

Aug 6 • 

Andrew McLuhan

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Catching up to (with?) McLuhan

"McLuhan: What If He's Right?" asked Tom Wolfe in 1965. "Turns out he was right" answers Nick Ripatrazone in Slate this week.

Aug 1 • 

Andrew McLuhan

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July 2025

TMI Presents: Summer Session '25

You're invited to watch as ten students from Understanding Media Intensive (2020-ongoing) present work inspired by the Counterblast 2025 call.

Jul 24 • 

Andrew McLuhan

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Counterblast 2025

"Each technology, explains McLuhan in this book, is as imperceptible to the people who live with it it as a water is to fish," begins the dust jacket…

Jul 15 • 

Andrew McLuhan

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December 2024

3 Reversal

A medium is a dynamic process with a point of no return.

Dec 13, 2024 • 

Andrew McLuhan

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November 2024

"Comin' in hot, in high definition..."

Joel Plaskett's song on the subject is probably the best interpretation of 'hot and cool' media out there. Today, a special edition of The McLuhan…

Nov 23, 2024 • 

Andrew McLuhan

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2 Media Hot and Cold

This week in this series looking at 'Understanding Media', we dive into maybe the most confusing area of McLuhan media studies: Hot and Cool media.

Nov 22, 2024 • 

Andrew McLuhan

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Seven Ways of Understanding Media

Part one of a seven part series looking at the first seven chapters as tools or methods of exploring the nature and effects of today's (and tomorrow's…

Nov 13, 2024 • 

Andrew McLuhan

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September 2024

Perception (n) versus Perception (v)

In this edition, we’re going explore some of the many senses of 'perception' and why, from the building blocks of experience to our opinions and…

Sep 17, 2024 • 

Andrew McLuhan

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July 2024

McLuhan as Anti-Environment(alist)

"We have no reason to be grateful" [to technologists for] "haphazard innovation," Marshall McLuhan wrote in a 1965 essay. In this edition of The McLuhan…

Jul 8, 2024 • 

Andrew McLuhan

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June 2024

Reading, and Understanding Media

A guidebook, and poetry more than prose, Marshall McLuhan's 1964 work remains one of our best resources for exploring the nature and effects of new…

Jun 29, 2024 • 

Andrew McLuhan

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