​​Bob’s Notes

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NOTE:Timing based on Payday archives.

Nov.22/2014  1178054-6-1

(Part 15 at 37:12 and Part 16 at beginning [finished playing])

obsolete museums
touching the artifact
Expo'67 
8:25

the young McLuhan fatigued by museums 
8:45

New York's natural "discontinuous space" 
9:40

detective stories 
12:30

making a room like a pinball machine 
14:10

Bucky Fuller dome 
15:45 and 18:45

Ted Carpenter's Eskimo researches 
16:20

"The Electric Circus" 
21:20

McLuhan's tetrad-management 
21:50

McLuhan never heard about New York "flats" 
23:30

Gerd Stern???? 
24:40

Eskimo doesn't get vertigo 
29:30

Electronic music 
30:05

Tony's "acoustic museum" 
32:50 ​

taken from:

Marshal McLuhan's excerpts from 1966-68

recording below:

Bob’s Notes

Prophet and leading philosopher of the electronic age Marshall McLuhan was born in Edmonton in 1911. He studied English at the University of Manitoba and at Cambridge before becoming a professor himself, positioning himself as a star academic, writer and speaker at the University of Toronto, where he remained until 1979.

McLuhan pondered the nature of the electronic world and was the first to discuss the relationship between humans and the media – computers, televisions, radios and advertisements – that surround us. In fact it was McLuhan who coined the term ‘media’. He published several books, his most widely-read study being Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964), where he proposed that the media themselves, not the content, should be the focus of intellectual attention – a thought which prompted the famous McLuhan phrase: the medium is the message. Decades ahead of his time, McLuhan’s numerous analyses of media and their effects are still pertinent today, particularly as we become increasingly engulfed by the digital age.​ 

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Nov.8/2014 1177790 July 6/66 TV Panel on MM (Harold Rosenberg, Richard Schickel, Tom Wolfe)
(Part 13 at 24:47 and Part 14 at 5:09)

taken from:

Bob’s Notes

Barbara Walters

Payday 

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Oct.25/2014 1177319

(Part 12 at 52:32 and beginning of Part 13)

advertising, "I'm an explorer, no point of view", Montaigne and newspapers, Bucky Fuller as solution, education, school as guerrilla units ​

the record below:

Bob’s Notes

Marshall McLuhan & John Culkin at Fordham, 1967. 

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Oct.4/2014 1177319-5-1 (same as 1177319-7-1) 

(Part 12 at 13:43) 

coming TV of laser beams (no picture frame)
2:39

Culkin coined the "fish" metaphor
FW and 10 Thunders (10th Thunder is TV [post-history], 7th is radio, 8th is movie, movie and TV [not fantasy]/car and plane ["Ondt and Gracehoper"]) 
5:51

Garden of Eden 
13:29

(see 27:08 of Part 12 on Oct.4) - will hijack a lot of money from the Foundations

gardens are machines 
15:41


virtual reality in consciousness 
17:54

black and white sound vs. film and radio (the Russians) 
20:34

democracies become aristocracies 
32:07

waltz vs. watusi 
33:18

Lewis Carroll vs. Einstein (see FW) 
33:57

"conformity" as rearview mirror 
34:58

movie as a "parahodos" (parody of Life) (Valery's comment) 
36:17

predicts the Internet 
37:02

iON's "obsolescing and retrieving" 
37:45

2-bit wit of the computer 
37:55

newspaper explains "Dada" 
39:02

formal causality 
40:29

instruction/stenciling on brainpan vs. exploration/probing (myth/fallacy/pattern-recognition [pattern that structures]) 
42:03

Joyce's ULYSSES mimes the retrieval of the involving Homeric gestalt/orality 
43:05

Edmund Burke on value judgments and entire populations 
44:45

"empathic" understanding of process 
45:30

Oct.11/2014 1177319-5-2 (continuing Oct.4 1177319-5-1)

(Part 13 at 53:55)

obsession with the Past/History/Rearview Mirror (alienation from the Present)
Hamlet the Revenger 
:24

Milton's "Paradise Lost" (retrieves the Garden of Eden) 
:56

Graveyard School of Poetry (the dead Present served as a parody of the "Past" trend) 
1:25

Landscape Poetry of the Romantics (Nature used as a mirror for the mind of Man, not the Past - liberated from "History") 
1:44

going from the Unknown to the Known (the Gorgon without a mirror) 
2:17

Pop Art regards the environment itself as art form 
3:00

Art as "prediction" not "proof" 
3:36

Edgar Allan Poe (retrace by reversing) 
4:23

Gerry Fagan said "the future of the future is the Present" 
4:44

artist uses his senses as scientific instruments (a critique of satisfaction) 
5:15

15-year-old Elizabeth McLuhan on a probing high school (Grade 11) team about education 
5:36

rigged quiz shows 
6:08

Hawthorn Experiment near Chicago 
6:53

merging work, learning, and discovery releases tremendous energy 
7:45

his "probing" is explained 
8:34

holding his microphone 
8:46

Oct.11/2014 1177319-5-2 (continuing Oct.4 1177319-5-1)

(Part 14 at 8:19)

Oct.18/2014 1177319-3-1 (continuing Oct.11/2014 1177319-5-2):

(Part 13 at 9:01 [short excerpt with section that precedes 1177319-5-2])

Cardinal Newman's "university" (the city) 
9:40

Garden of Eden 
11:46

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