McLuhan Monday Night Seminar, February 5, 1973: Marshall McLuhan, Jane Bret, Barrington Nevitt.

Описание: The McLuhan Institute presents the third of our series of 1973 Monday Night Seminars recorded at Marshall McLuhan's Centre for Culture and Technology at St. Michael's College, University of Toronto.

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MNS 3: February 5, 1973 --

From the archives of The McLuhan Institute, recovered from 1/4" reel-to-reel recording, Marshall McLuhan and Jane Bret (Dallas, Texas, Montessori pioneer and author), Barrington Nevitt (Long-time McLuhan friend and collaborator) and guests in the room including: Dr. Arthur Hurst, Mr. (Tooky?), psychologist, group from Nairobi, 'a group from OISE', and unnamed others in the room discuss a range of subjects.

Topics mentioned include: 'Opticon' device to allow blind to read; TV image and Chinese ideogram; the obsolescence of the classroom; grandmothers; 'Battle of the Banks' article, Toronto Star, Saturday February 3rd; Aristotle was wrong; the rear side of a chimpanzee; Polarity; Montessori program, sensory training; visual vs audio vs tactile space; Euclidean space's rise and fall; loss of identity; male/female; near-point distance reading in children; 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'; computers; Ivan Illich 'De-Schooling Society'; Newton; Einstein; Quantum Mechanics; attention span; 'the medium is the message; Rousseau; and more!

The McLuhan Institute's vintage Monday Night Seminar Series:

MNS 1: January 22, 1973 -- premieres January 22, 2022
MNS 2: January 29, 1973 -- premiered January 29, 2022
MNS 3: February 5, 1973 -- premiers February 5, 2022
MNS 4: February 19, 1973 -- premiers February 19, 2022 - two tapes
MNS 5: March 5, 1973 -- premiers March 5, 2022
MNS 6: April 16, 1973 -- premiers April 16, 2022