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Cognition is figure; the substrates that make it possible are ground.
The Examined Cognition: Substrates of Metacognition and Meth
“Cognition is figure; the substrates that make it possible are ground.”
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McLuhan's claim that low-definition media require more cognitive completion has clear correlates in the perceptual psychology of imagery and the cognitive-load literature
# A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concept
“McLuhan's claim that low-definition media require more cognitive completion has clear correlates in the perceptual psychology of imagery and the cognitive-load literature”
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McLuhan's theory of violence is one of his most distinctive and least cited claims.
# A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concept
“McLuhan's theory of violence is one of his most distinctive and least cited claims.”
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McLuhan's tetrad is computationally equivalent to addiction-as-active-inference
Deep Research Pass: "The Medium Becomes the Ground"
“the McLuhan tetrad, the Koob allostatic cycle, and the predictive-processing account of addiction are three independent descriptions of the same four-stroke engine”
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The rear-view mirror concept is a load-bearing concept in McLuhan scholarship.
Research Brief: A McLuhanesque Critique of Mark Carney
“the title alone signals that within first-generation McLuhan scholarship the rear-view mirror is treated as a load-bearing concept, not a throwaway image.”
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Print technology produces lineal, sequential habits.
Research Brief: A McLuhanesque Critique of Mark Carney
“Print "ingrains lineal, sequential habits,"”
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Introspection is not the discovery of a pre-existing inner content
The medium of cognition shapes what cognition can take itself to be
the tetrad is a structured, four-part heuristic
# A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concept
“he meant it as a structured, four-part heuristic that any analyst could apply to any artifact”
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Language enables the intellect to detach itself from immediate sensory immersion
Deep Research Pass: "The Medium Becomes the Ground"
“Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body.”
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McLuhan treats spoken language as the foundational medium
Deep Research Pass: "The Medium Becomes the Ground"
“It is the extension of man in speech that enables the intellect to detach itself from the vastly wider reality.”
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McLuhan would approve.
Research Brief: A McLuhanesque Critique of Mark Carney
“McLuhan would approve.”
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Disputed — who says what, against what see standalone →
These are things people say about Marshall McLuhan that aren't settled fact — each one attributed to who's actually claiming it, so a claim never quietly passes as established just because it showed up in a document. Weigh it yourself.
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"the politics of grievance is the structurally predicted condition of an electric-age global village"
Asserted by Carney · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
Research Brief: A McLuhanesque Critique of Mark Carney ↗
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"Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful."
Asserted by Marshall McLuhan · stance: pro
The evidence on file mostly supports this, but it's still someone's claim, not a settled fact.
# A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concept ↗
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"McLuhan returned the dismissal"
Asserted by Marshall McLuhan · stance: critical
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
# A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concept ↗
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"the post-2022 voice-AI transition fulfills McLuhan's acoustic-space thesis"
Unattributed assertion · stance: pro
The evidence on file mostly supports this, but it's still someone's claim, not a settled fact.
The Acoustic Return: A Research Pass on McLuhan, Voice Inter ↗
Disputed
"Specialist roles are obsolesced; the executive must become a generalist "dropout" from the formal organisation, working figure-and-ground rather than top-down."
Asserted by Marshall McLuhan · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
# A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concept ↗
Disputed
"discarnate beings have no fixed identity, no moral weight, no responsibility"
Asserted by Marshall McLuhan · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
# A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concept ↗
Disputed
"The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations"
Asserted by Marshall McLuhan · stance: critical
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
# A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concept ↗
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"violence arises from media-induced identity loss"
Asserted by Marshall McLuhan · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
# A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concept ↗
Timeline see standalone →
1960
1960
publication of 'Acoustic Space'
1962
1962
publication of Gutenberg Galaxy
1962
publication of The Gutenberg Galaxy
1964
1964
Publication of Understanding Media
1967
1967
Publication of The Medium is the Massage
1967-03
publication of A Schoolman's Guide to Marshall McLuhan
1968
1968
Publication of War and Peace in the Global Village
1968
publication of Through the Vanishing Point
1969
1969
publication of Counterblast
1970
1970
publication of Culture Is Our Business
1970
publication of From Cliché to Archetype
1972
1972
publication of Take Today: The Executive as Dropout
1974
1974
McLuhan worked on the tetrad
1974–1980
McLuhan's lectures and interviews
1977
1977
McLuhan's 1977 TV Ontario interview
1977
1977 interview
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1988
1988
publication of Laws of Media
1989
1989
publication of The Global Village
2021
2021
publication of book
Undated
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McLuhan's work on media theory
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publication of Explorations in Communication