Howard WetzelOn Trails, Media Communion and MimesisOn Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor (Simon & Schuster 2016) is an informal history of many kinds of trails and their effects. Moor is…Jan 4Jan 4
Howard WetzelA Brief Note on Extending McLuhan Percept.William James said the percept precedes the concept. McLuhan didn’t care of he was right as long as he got people to think. Poets make…Sep 9, 2023Sep 9, 2023
Howard WetzelThings Fall Apart: McLuhan’s Dissociation, the Body and EcologyWhat therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. Mark 10:9, KJVSep 14, 2022Sep 14, 2022
Howard WetzelA Spring Descent Into McLuhan’s MaelstromA Spring Descent Into McLuhan’s MaelstromJun 27, 2022Jun 27, 2022
Howard WetzelWe Have Met The Audience And They Are Us“My consumers are they not my producers?” James Joyce, Finnegans WakeOct 21, 2021Oct 21, 2021
Howard WetzelNarcissus and Echo: Identity Feedback and MediationMcLuhan used the Narcissus myth as the metaphor for our fascination with the human image in our technological extensions. The Narcissus…Oct 6, 2021Oct 6, 2021
Howard WetzelThe New Media RhetoricMcLuhan derived his ‘theories’ about technology from his study of Logos, the Word, and its rhetoric. Rhetoric appeared as a self-conscious…Sep 26, 2021Sep 26, 2021
Howard WetzelExtra! Read All About It! Digital Media Threaten Democracy! Fascism Looms in the Rear-view Mirror!We are today as far into the electric age as the Elizabethans had advanced into the typographical and mechanical age. And we are…Sep 3, 2021Sep 3, 2021
