Marshall McLuhan: UNDERSTANDING MEDIA - The Extensions of Man

Commentary by E. Moritz

We'll be exploring McLuhan in depth here ... until then ... here's the core reading list:

 

 
1.

The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan, et al (Paperback - June 2001)4.6 out of 5 stars
Paperback The blurb states: 30 years after its publication Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is the Massage remains his most entertaining, provocative, and piquant book. With every technological and social "advance" McLuhan's proclamation that "the media work us over completely" becomes more evident and plain. In his words, 'so pervasive are they in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, or unaltered'.

McLuhan's remarkable observation that "societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication" is undoubtedly more relevant today than ever before. With the rise of the internet and the explosion of the digital revolution there has never been a better time to revisit Marshall McLuhan.


2.

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan, Lewis H. Lapham (Introduction) (Paperback)
4.3 out of 5 stars Paperback | Unknown Binding |

Personally,  I am reading this book now ... it is the motivation for this page.  It is the reason MM is placed in the Prime Radiant ... So I will elaborate from here. In the meanwhile -- I've come to realize I need to spell out more about the term 'RADIANT' - in astronomy it referes to "a point in the heavens at which the visible parallel paths of meteors appear to meet when traced backward"  more on this too ... later ... soon?


3. The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man
by Marshall McLuhan, Philip B. Meggs (Introduction) (Hardcover - November 2002)
Hardcover |

4. Essential McLuhan
by Marshall McLuhan, et al (Paperback - July 1996)
5.0 out of 5 stars
Paperback

5. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
by Herbert Marshall McLuhan (Paperback - December 1962)
5.0 out of 5 stars Paperback |

6. Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger
by Philip Marchand, Neil Postman (Paperback)
5.0 out of 5 stars Hardcover | Paperback |

7. The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century (Communication and Society (New York, N.Y.).)
by Marshall McLuhan, Bruce R. Powers (Contributor) (Paperback - September 1992)
3.0 out of 5 stars Hardcover | Paperback

8. Laws of Media: The New Science by Marshall McLuhan, Eric McLuhan (Paperback - April 1992)
5.0 out of 5 stars

9.   The Method Is the Message: Marshall McLuhan & Karl Marx
by Paul Grosswiler (Paperback - December 1997)
Hardcover | Paperback

10. Surfing on Finnegans Wake & Riding Range With Marshall McLuhan
by Terence McKenna, Marshall McLuhan (Contributor) (Audio Cassette - October 1995)
5.0 out of 5 stars

11. Clarifying McLuhan: An Assessment of Process and Product (Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications)
by S. D. Neill (Hardcover - April 1993)

12. Understanding Media: Critical Edition
by Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon (Editor) (Paperback - November 2002)

13.   Marshall McLuhan: Escape into Understanding a Biography
by W. Terrence Gordon (Paperback - November 2002)

14.   Marshall McLuhan
by George Sanderson, et al (Hardcover - May 1989)Hardcover |

15. Marshall Mcluhan-Unbound
by Eric McLuhan (Editor), Marshall McLuhan (Paperback - October 2002)

16. The Book of Probes
by Marshall McLuhan, et al (Hardcover - October 2002)

17. Forward Through the Rearview Mirror: Reflections on and by Marshall McLuhan
by Paul Benedetti (Editor), Nancy Dehart (Editor) (Paperback)
5.0 out of 5 stars Paperback |

18. Marshall McLuhan and Virtuality
by Christopher Horrocks, Chris Horrocks (Paperback)

19.   Marshall McLuhan meets the Millennium Bug
by George M Biro (Hardcover)Hardcover | Mass Market Paperback

20. Media Research: Technology, Art, Communication (Critical Voices in Art, Theory, and Culture)
by Marshall McLuhan, Michel A. Moos (Editor) (Paperback)Hardcover | Paperback

21. Then What? A Funquiry into the Nature of Technology, Human Transformation and Marshall McLuhan
by Jason Ohler (Paperback)


22. War and Peace In the Global Villageby Marshall McLuhan, et al (Paperback - June 2001)
5.0 out of 5 stars Paperback |


23. Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium
by Paul Levinson (Hardcover - May 1999) 
 Hardcover | Paperback
 
24. Marshall McLuhan: Escape into Understanding: A Biography
by W. Terrence Gordon, Marshall McLuhan (Hardcover - October 1997)
4.0 out of 5 stars
Hardcover | Paperback
 
25. Unthinking Modernity: Innis, McLuhan, and the Frankfurt School
by Judith Stamps (Hardcover - February 1995)
Hardcover | Paperback

26. The Virtual Marshall McLuhan
by Donald F. Theall, Edmund Carpenter (Hardcover - March 2001)
4.2 out of 5 stars

27.   Laws of Media
by Marshall McLuhan (Hardcover - March 1992)

28. The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion
by Marshall McLuhan, et al (Paperback - May 2002)
5.0 out of 5 stars

29.   McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography
by Richard Cavell (Hardcover)
30.   Technology and the Canadian mind : Innis, McLuhan, Grant
by Arthur Kroker

31.   History and Communications: Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan: The Interpretation of History
by Graeme Patterson (Paperback - November 1990)
Hardcover | Paperback

32.   McLuhan, or Modernism in Reverse (Theory Culture (Paper))
by Glenn Willmott (Paperback - June 1996)
Hardcover | Paperback |

33.   The Interior Landscape: The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan, 1943-1962.
by Herbert Marshall. McLuhan

34.   McLuhan by Jonathan Miller

35.   Culture Is Our Businessby Herbert Marshall. McLuhan4.0 out of 5 stars

36.   War and Peace in the Global Village: An Inventory of Some of the Current Spastic Situations That Could Be Eliminated by More Feedforward
by Herbert Marshall. McLuhan
37.   Take today; the executive as dropout
by Marshall McLuhan

38.   Technology and the Canadian Mind: Innis/McLuhan/Grant
by Arthur Kroker
Hardcover | Paperback
39.   Counterblast
by Marshall McLuhan, Harley Parker (Illustrator)

40.   Letters of Marshall McLuhan
by Marshall McLuhan, et al

41.   Understanding Media: The Extension of Man
by Herbert Marshall McLuhan,Marshall McLuhan
Mass Market Paperback
42.   Marshall McLuhanby Jonathan Miller
43.   Counter Blastby Herbert Marshall. McLuhan
4.0 out of 5 stars

44.   Culture As Polyphony: An Essay on the Nature of Paradigms
by James M., Curtis
Hardcover
45.   Medium Is the Rear View Mirror Understanding McLuh
by Df Theall
 
46.   Sense and Nonsense of McLuhan,
by Sidney Walter, Finkelstein

47.   City as classroom : understanding language and media
by Marshall McLuhan

48.   The Mechanical Brideby Herbert Marshall McLuhan
49.   The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man
by Herbert Marshall. McLuhan 5.0 out of 5 stars
50.   T-Shirt Stronglanguage Marshall McLuhan
(Calendar - November 1993)

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