In recent decades, museums and galleries have made a sensory turn when it comes to designing displays and engaging visitors. Museums like the Metropolitan in New York offer multi-sensory ...

The Sensus Communis, Synesthesia, and the Soul is available in June 2025.

A nonverbal art requires a nonverbal comment. Did Marshall McLuhan say that? No, it was Wyndham Lewis, the rambunctious Englishman of arts and letters in whose observations and eccentricities ...

Which theoretical frameworks assist us in reflecting on this transformation in the media ecosystem? In 1964, Marshall McLuhan published Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, a book in which he ...

Designing packaging goes beyond performing a specific fit-for-use function.

It was through Cage that Mr. Stern was introduced to Marshall McLuhan’s theories, reading the manuscript of what would be published in 1964 as “Understanding Media,” McLuhan’s oracular ...

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McLuhan, schmoohan! Let's talk boxing. One-time heavyweight champion of the world Maximilian Adelbert Baer (aka Max Baer and Madcap Maxie), was the most feared boxer of his day - having killed two ...

In this essay of extraordinary scope and depth, Eric McLuhan explores faith as a form of knowing. He does so against the backdrop of preliterate man's concrete, bodily submersion in the putting on ...

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