Episode 112: Readings from the 'Book of Probes': The Mysticism of Marshall McLuhan - a podcast by Phil Ford and J. F. Martel

The Book of Probes contains a assortment of aphorisms and maxims from the work of the Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, each one set to evocative imagery by American graphic designer David Carson. McLuhan called the utterances collected in this book "probes," that is, pieces of conceptual gadgetry designed not to disclose facts about the world so much as blaze new pathways leading to the invisible background of our time. In this episode, Phil and JF use an online number generator to discuss a random yet uncannily cohesive selection of of McLuhanian probes.
REFERENCESMarshall Mcluhan and David Carson, The Book of Probes (https://bookshop.org/books/the-book-of-probes/9781584232520)
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (https://bookshop.org/books/to-the-lighthouse-9780156907392/9780156907392)Marshall Mcluhan, The Mechanical Bride (https://bookshop.org/books/the-mechanical-bride-folklore-of-industrial-man/9781584232438)
Aristotle, System of causation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_causes)G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (https://bookshop.org/books/orthodoxy-chesterton/9781511903608)
Eric A. Havelock, Preface to Plato (https://bookshop.org/books/preface-to-plato/9780674699069)Weird Studies, Episode 71 on Marshall Mcluhan (https://www.weirdstudies.com/71)
Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy (https://bookshop.org/books/orality-and-literacy-30th-anniversary-edition/9780415538381)Christiaan Wouter Custers, A Philosophy of Madness (https://bookshop.org/books/a-philosophy-of-madness-the-experience-of-psychotic-thinking/9780262044288)
Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense (https://bookshop.org/books/the-logic-of-sense-revised/9780231059831)Marshall Mcluhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy (https://bookshop.org/books/the-gutenberg-galaxy/9781442612693)
Harry Partch (https://www.harrypartch.com), American composerMarc Augé, Non-Places (https://bookshop.org/books/non-places-an-introduction-to-supermodernity/9781844673117)
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/sapir-whorf-hypothesis)Denis Villeneuve (dir.), Arrival (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt254316/)
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (https://bookshop.org/books/a-thousand-plateaus-capitalism-and-schizophrenia/9780816614028)Harry G. Frankfurt, On Bullshit (https://bookshop.org/books/on-bullshit/9780691122946)

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