Marshall McLuhan 1966 Joyce and T(hunder)elevision

Title: Marshall McLuhan 1966 - Fordham Lecture Series: James Joyce and Television
Recording date: 28 June 1966
Location: Fordham University

Remarks:
McLuhan gives a good overview of his percepts and is sometimes interrupted by John Culkin. The audio quality is okay but some parts are cut off due to technical problems.

Background information:
During the 1967-1968 academic year, McLuhan, the Albert Schweitzer Chair in Humanities, oversaw an alternative curriculum of lectures, film showings and independent study assignments for students. Within two months of his appointment in 1967 he is hospitalised and underwent the longest brain surgery the world has known until that date (2 1/2hours and removal of benign brain tumou. McLuhan’s appointment came about through communications professor John Culkin, S.J., a longtime colleague of McLuhan’s and himself a media expert.

John Culkin (b. 1928), who was a Jesuit priest until 1969, first met McLuhan at a seminar Brandeis University in 1963, while he was working on his doctorate at Harvard, where one of his project was to write a clear explication of McLuhan’s ideas. (He found this difficult until he was directed to McLuhan’s fourteen-chapter Report on Project in Understanding New Media (1960): see page 255-6). In 1965 Culkin was appointed Director of the Centre for Communication at Fordham University and was instrumental in arranging for McLuhan’s appointment to the Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities at Fortham in 1967-8. Culkin later founded in New York City the Centre for Understanding Media, and a graduate-school program in media studies at the New School for Social Research, both of which are explicitly based on McLuhan’s work. He is acclaimed to have invented the field of Media Literacy.

Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to more than 15,100 students in its four undergraduate colleges and its six graduate and professional schools.

Concepts that McLuhan explains:
Difference between Film and TV
Hot and Cool
Finnegan’s Wake
Gardens as Machines
Virtual Reality in Consciousness
“Conformity” as rearview mirror aspect
Movies as “Parodies of Life” (Valery)
Joyce’s retrieval of Homeric Gestalt/orality
Formal Causality
Dada and the Newspaper
Important links:
https://mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com
http://www.marshallmcluhanspeaks.com
http://www.mcluhanonmaui.com
http://www.fivebodied.com

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