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.

Earlier this month I sent out a call to those who have taken (or are currently taking) Understanding Media Intensive ‘ (36 weekly classes reading, discussing, exploring Marshall McLuhan’s 1964 guide ‘Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man’) “to prepare and present observations, insights, nuggets, probes toward illuminating our tumultuous moment. What is happening? What is happening to us?”

I was hoping for ten entries, and by the July 21 deadline (Marshall McLuhan’s 114th birthday!) I got them. Here’s the lineup:

1. Constructed Realities: Generative AI, Video & Social Media (Aynne Valencia)

2. Counter-Environments as transportation vehicles (Scott T Horowitz)

3. BOOKSWITHTIF (Tiffany Petty-Gilliam)

4. A Tale of Two Texts (Jacob Sager)

5. The Museum as a Large Room Pinball Machine (William Buxton)

6. Counterblast Erasure (Matthew Stillman)

7. McLuhan and the Relation of Environment to Anti-Environment (Joe Musicco)

8. Three Revolutions in the Context of McLuhan’s Theory. A Comic. (Kalina Kukielko)

9. Armaments & Amputees (Regina Atienza)

10. Organic Intelligence (Jamie Stantonian)

Presenters come from a variety of fields including education, arts, technology, consulting; and from England to California and points in between. Each will have about ten minutes to present, then we will have time for questions and discussion.

There’s even something of a half-time show!

Presenters will all be live via Zoom with broadcast to The McLuhan Institute’s YouTube channel so you can attend or watch later:. You can follow this link and bookmark it so you don’t forget:

TMI Summer Sessions: Counterblast 2025 live August 9 at 12:00 PM/ET on YouTube

I hope you can join us for this summer’s session.

A reminder that class resumes in September for the back third of the book, chapters 21: ‘Press: Government by News Leak’ to 33: ‘Automation: Learning a Living.’ For more information or to register (limited space available) head over to Gray Area, our partner for the course since we began it in 2020.

Andrew McLuhan Teaches Understanding Media Intensive Part Three.

Thanks for being here,

Andrew.

ps: our series on the first seven chapters of Understanding Media resumes next.