Marshall McLuhan


The introduction into the McLuhan Video Archive is based on the conversational video events McLuminations that took place in 2011 during the McLuhan Centennial directed by Baruch Gottlieb and featuring the McLuhan scholars Derrick de Kerckhove, Richard Cavell, Martina Leeker and Steffi […]

McLuminations. An Introduction to the McLuhan Video Archive


Verlieren wir die Fähigkeit, einen privaten, abstrakten und kritischen Standpunkt zu etablieren, weil die neuen instantanen „elektronischen Medien“ ein total involvierendes Umfeld schaffen, das keine Zeit für Reflexionen erlaubt (McLuhan)? Überwiegt die Tendenz der „technischen Bilder“, die Menschen zu zerstreuen und in […]

Vilém Flusser und Marshall McLuhan: Politische Dimensionen in Medientheorien


Legendary McLuhanist Derrick de Kerckhove and Berlin-based McLuhan scholar Steffi Winkler elaborate on rare material from the McLuhan archives in the first session of the McLuminations screening and discussion series, produced by Baruch Gottlieb. Initiated and directed by Baruch Gottlieb as a […]

McLuminations: McLuhan vs. McLuhan. The optimist and the monitor