One of my favorite YouTube videos is a clip from a Canadian television show in 1968 featuring a debate between Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan. The two men, both heroes of the ’60s, could hardly be ...

There should have been conferences and lectures, seminars and symposiums. Discussion and debate should have reverberated through print and television; the Internet should have been frantic with ...

Marshall McLuhan, the pop culture sage of the electronic world and a Catholic convert, spent the final days of his life with Frank Stroud, S.J. During those last days of 1980, they read, laughed, ...

There’s a wonderful scene in Woody Allen’s 1977 film Annie Hall where Allen’s character berates a know-it-all Columbia University professor who is standing near him in the ticket line to a movie and ...

How big was Marshall McLuhan in the late 1960s? The San Francisco Chronicle dubbed the University of Toronto professor “the hottest academic property around,” and the line “Marshall McLuhan, whatcha ...

Marshall McLuhan, who, as just about everybody-ought to know by now, is the Canadian agricultural expert and author of “The Romance of Wheat”— No. I am mistaken. Marshall McLuhan, who, as just about ...

Today would have been Marshall McLuhan’s 100th birthday. Continuing our informal McLuhan Week at the Lab, we present this essay by Maria Bustillos on McLuhan’s unique status as a media theorist who ...

Marshall McLuhan was fascinated by how we consume and share ideas and information and what impact that has on society. How we get our information and what form it comes in, according to McLuhan, is ...

Google’s Doodle have a fondness for celebrating legendary figures, but today’s person of interest feels more appropriate for the venue than most. The company hails Canadian professor, philosopher, and ...

If the medium is the message, what does pandemic-era video conferencing tell us? In the 1999 film, Up In the Air, George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a consultant whose job is to fly around the country ...