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With agent-assisted console coding apps blowing up in the past half-year (Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, OpenCode, etc.), 70s/80s-style text interfaces are making a comeback among surfers of the latest tech waves.

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In the December, 1957 issue of The Canadian Forum, McLuhan penned a piece titled The Subliminal Projection Project, (available to read here) wherein he intended, with his usual haughty aloofness, to deflate the post-war paranoia around subliminal messaging

Between The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962) and Understanding Media (1964), Marshall McLuhan wrote a short piece on education which was, as usual, a vehicle for him to demonstrate novel linguistic forms to perturb and unsettle the settled modes of thought of read…

In his critical essay James Joyce: Trivial and Quadrivial, Marshall McLuhan makes reference (on page 38 of Interior Landscape) to a passage in critic Paul Valéry’s book Variety V (1945).

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Ratios Let’s figure out just what analogy and metaphor meant for Marshall McLuhan.

My recent dive into anthropology has taken its inevitable post-human turn with a book a friend gave me today, purchased from Book Bazaar here in Ottawa.

I’ve been writing up a storm over at Less Mad, and I’m very proud to say that I’ve had a few paid subscribers amid the nearly fifty people who now receive a few emails a week, on average, from yours truly since I started just a few weeks ago.

I’ve been doing my thing on this website since June of 2018, and doing it on ConcernedNetizen.com since February 2019.