Marshall McLuhan

Herbert Marshall McLuhan (21 July 1911 – 31 December 1980) was a Canadian professor of English, philosopher of communication theory and a public intellectual. His work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory, as well as having practical applications in the advertising and television industries.

Works

Theses

• George Meredith as a Poet and Dramatic Parodist, University of Manitoba, [1934]. M.A. thesis. Unpublished.
• The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of his Time, Cambridge, [1943]; ed. W. Terrence Gordon, Gingko Press, 2009, 292 pp. Ph.D. Dissertation. [1]. Review: Rose (CJC). (English)

Books

• The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man, New York: Vanguard Press, 1951; Gingko Press, 2002, 160 pp; London: Duckworth Overlook, 2011, ARG. [2] (English)
  • La sposa meccanica: il folclore dell'uomo industriale, trans. Francesca Gorjup Valente and Carla Plevano Pezzini, Milan: SugarCo, 1984, 303 pp. (Italian)
  • Kikai no hanayome: sangyō shakai no fōkuroa [機械の花嫁: 産業社会のフォークロア], trans. Manabu Isaka, Tokyo: Takeuchi Shoten, 1991, 369 pp. (Japanese)
  • Die mechanische Braut: Volkskultur des industriellen Menschen, trans. Rainer Höltschl, Amsterdam: Verlag der Kunst, 1996, 254 pp. (German)
  • La mariée mécanique: folklore de l'homme industriel, trans. Émilie Notéris, Alfortville: Ère, 2012, 172 pp. (French)

• Counterblast, [Toronto], 1954, [17] pp; Gingko Press, 2011. Distributed in 1954 as a hand-made 'zine'. [3] (English)
  • Counterblast, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969, 141 pp; London: Rapp + Whiting, 1969, 141 pp; Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969; Gingko Press, 2010. (English)
  • Contraexplosión, trans. Isidoro Gelstein, Buenos Aires: Paidós, 1971, 147 pp. (Spanish)
  • Counter tsald, trans. Jean Paré, Montréal: Hurtubise/HMH, 1972, 141 pp; Paris: Mame, 1972. (French)

• The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, University of Toronto Press, 1962, 300 pp; 2011, 336 pp. (English)
  • La galaxie Gutenberg: la génèse de l'homme typographique, Montréal: HMH, 1967, 432 pp; Paris: Mame, 1967; new ed., 2 vols., trans. Paris: Gallimard, 1977, 519 pp. (French)
  • La galaxia Gutemberg: génesis del "homo typographicus", trans. Juan Novella, Madrid: Aguilar, 1969, 410 pp. (Spanish)
  • Gutenberg-galaxen: den typografiska människans uppkomst, trans. Richard Matz, Stockholm: PAN/Norstedt, 1969, 373 pp. (Swedish)
  • A galáxia de Gutenberg: a formação do homem tipográfico, trans. Leônidas Gontigo de Carvalho and Anísio Teixeira, São Paulo: Ed. da Universidade de São Paulo, 1972, 390 pp, ARG. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Gutenbergova galaksija: nastajanje tipografskog čoveka, trans. Branko Vučićević, Belgrade: Nolit, 1973, 346 pp. (Serbo-Croatian)
  • La galàxia Gutenberg: la formació de l'home tipogràfic, trans. Francesc Parcerisas, Barcelona: Ediciones 62, 1973, 323 pp. (Catalan)
  • Galaxia Gutenberg: omul şi era tiparului, intro. Victor Ernest Maşek, trans. Luiza Năvodaru and Petre Năvodaru, Bucharest: Politică, 1975, 453 pp. (Romanian)
  • La galassia Gutenberg: nascita dell'uomo tipografico, trans. Stefano Rizzo, Rome: Armando, 1976, 383 pp. (Italian)
  • Gutenberuku no gingakei: Katsuji ningen no keisei [グーテンベルクの銀河系: 活字人間の形成], Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo, 1986, vii+486+xxiv pp. (Japanese)
  • Gutenberg galaxia: "Homo typographicus" delakoaren genesia, trans. Edorta Agirre, Donostia: Gaiak, 1998, 220 pp. (Basque)
  • "Gutenbergova galaxie", in Člověk, média a elektronická kultura: Výbor z díla, Brno: Jota, 2000, pp 105-158. Trans. of excerpt. (Czech)
  • A Gutenberg-galaxis: a tipográfiai ember létrejötte, intro. István Kristó Nagy, trans. Vilmos Benczik, Budapest: Trezor, 2001, 331 pp. (Hungarian)
  • Gutenberg galaksisi: tipografik insanın oluşumu, trans. Gül Çağalı Güven, Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2001, 413 pp. (Turkish)
  • Galaktika Gutenberga: sotvorenie čeloveka pečatnoj kultury, trans. Aleksandr Ûdin, Kiev: Nika Centr: Elga, 2004, 432 pp. (Ukrainian)
  • Galaktika Gutenberga: stanovlenie cheloveka pechataiushchego, trans. I.O. Tiurinoi, Moscow: Akademicheskii proekt, 2005, 496 pp. (Russian)
  • A Galaxia Gutenberg: a creación do home tipográfico, intro. Darío Villanueva, trans. Manuel Outeiriño, Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2010, 506 pp. (Galician)
  • Galaktyka Gutenberga: tworzenie człowieka druku, intro. Grzegorz Godlewski, trans. Andrzej Wojtasik, Warsaw: Narodowe Centrum Kultury, 2017, 467 pp. (Polish)

• Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, New York: McGraw Hill, 1964; MIT Press, 1994, 392 pp; ed. W. Terrence Gordon, Gingko Press, 2003, 640 pp. [4] (English)
  • Capire i media: gli strumenti del comunicare, Milan: Mondadori, 1967; new ed., Milan: Il Saggiatore, 2011. (Italian)
  • Ningen kakuchō no genri: media no rikai [人間拡張の原理: メディアの理解], trans. Susumu Takagi, Tokyo: Takeuchi Shoten, 1967, 468 pp. (Japanese)
  • Mens en media, trans. S. de Lange, Utrecht: Ambopaperbacks, 1967, 354 pp. (Dutch)
  • Mennesket og medierne, trans. Elsa Gress Wright, Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1967, 395 pp. (Danish)
  • Media: människans utbyggnader, trans. Richard Matz, Stockholm: PAN/Norstedt, 1967, 356 pp. (Swedish)
  • Pour comprendre les médias, trans. Jean Paré, Montréal: HMH, 1968; Paris: Seuil, 1968. (French)
  • Ihmisen uudet ulottuvuudet, trans. Antero Tiusanen, Porvoo and Helsinki: WS, 1968, 397 pp. (Finnish)
  • Mennesket og media, trans. Olav Angell, Oslo: Gyldendal, 1968, 315 pp; Oslo: Pax, 1997. (Norwegian)
  • Die magischen Kanäle. Understanding Media, trans. Meinrad Amann, Düsseldorf and Vienna: Econ, 1968, 389 pp; Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg: Fischer, 1970, 343 pp. (German)
  • Środek jest przekazem: wybór fragmentów książki pt. "Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man", Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Radia i Telewizji, 1968, 73 pp. Trans. of excerpts. (Polish)
  • Os meios de comunicação como extensão do homem, trans. Décio Pignatari, São Paulo: Cultrix, 1969, 407 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • La comprension de los medios como las extensiones del hombre, trans. Ramón Palazón, México: Diana, 1969, 443 pp. (Spanish)
  • Poznavanje opštila: čovekovih produžetaka, trans. Slobodan Đorđević, Belgrade: Prosveta, 1971, 432 pp. (Serbo-Croatian)
  • trans. Khalil Sabat, Cairo: Dar al-Nahdah al-'Arabiyah, 1975. (Arabic)
  • Media ron: ningen no kakuchō no shosō [メディア論: 人間の拡張の諸相], trans. Yutaka Kurihara and Nakakiyo Kōmoto, Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo, 1987, 381 pp. (Japanese)
  • Media: oi proektaseis tou anthrōpou [Media: Οι προεκτάσεις του ανθρώπου], trans. Spyros Mandros, Athens: Ekdoseis Kalvos, 1990, 434 pp. (Greek)
  • Jak rozumět médiím: extenze člověka, trans. Miloš Calda, afterw. Jaroslav Střítecký, Prague: Odeon, 1991, 348 pp; 2nd ed., rev., afterw. Jan Jirák, Prague: Mladá fronta, 2011, 399 pp. (Czech)
  • Comprender los medios de comunicación: las extensiones del ser humano, trans. Patrick Ducher, Barcelona: Paidós, 1996, 366 pp. (Spanish)
  • Medien verstehen: der McLuhan-Reader, eds. Martin Baltes, Fritz Böhler and Rainer Höltschl, Mannheim: Bollmann, 1997, 239 pp. (German)
  • Midiŏ ŭi ihae: In'gan ŭi hwakchang, trans. Sang Ho Kim, Seoul: Communication Books, 1997, 599 pp. (Korean)
  • Media begrijpen: de extensies van de mens, Amsterdam: Nieuwezijds, 2002, 424 pp. (Dutch)
  • Le-havin et ha-medyah: sheluḥot ha-adam [להבין את המדיה : שלוחות האדם], trans. ʻIdit Shorer, Tel Aviv: Bavel, 2002, 440 pp. (Hebrew)
  • Kaip suprasti medijas: žmogaus tęsiniai, trans. Daina Valentinavičienė, Vilnius: Baltos Lankos, 2003, 347 pp. (Lithuanian)
  • Zrozumieć media: przedłużenia człowieka, intro. Natalia Szczucka, Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Naukowo-Techniczne, 2004, 477 pp. (Polish)
  • Razumijevanje medija, trans. David Prpa, 2008. (Croatian)
  • Să înţelegem media: extensiile omului, trans. Ovidiu George Vitan, Bucharest: Curtea Veche, 2011, 488 pp. (Romanian)

• with Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, coord. Jerome Agel, Toronto: Bantam Books, 1967, 159 pp; London: Penguin Books, 1967, 159 pp; New York: Random House, 1967, 159 pp; Gingko Press, 2001, 160 pp; Penguin, 2008; Gingko Press, 2011. [5] (English)
  • Message et massage, trans. Thérèse Lauriol, Paris: Pauvert, 1968, 160 pp. (French)
  • Il medium è il massaggio, trans. Raffaele Petrillo, Milan: Feltrinelli, 1968, 159 pp; 2nd ed., 1981. (Italian)
  • Media wa massaji de aru: eikyō no mokuroku [メディアはマッサージである: 影響の目錄], trans. Hiroshi Minami, Tokyo: Kawade Shobō, 1968. (Japanese)
  • Das Medium ist Message, trans. Max Nänny, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin: Ullstein, 1969, 154 pp. (German)
  • El medio es el masaje: un inventario de efectos, trans. León Mirlas, Buenos Aires: Paidós, 1969, 159 pp. (Spanish)
  • O meio são as massa-gens, trans. Ivan Pedro de Martins, Rio de Janeiro: Record, 1969, 187 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Das Medium ist die Message Ein Inventar medialer Effekte, trans. Martin Baltes and Rainer Höltschl, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2011, 158 pp. [6] (German)
  • Médiamasszázs: egy rakás hatás, trans. Barnabás Kiss, Budapest: Typotex, 2012, 160 pp. (Hungarian)

• with Quentin Fiore, War and Peace in the Global Village: An Inventory of Some of the Current Spastic Situations That Could Be Eliminated By More Feedforward, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968; Gingko Press, 2001, 192 pp. Coordinated by Jerome Agel. [7]
  • Guerre et paix dans le village planétaire: un inventaire de quelques situations spasmodiques courantes qui pourraient être supprimées, Paris: Laffont, 1970, 189 pp. (French)
  • Krieg und Frieden im globalen Dorf: eine Bestandsaufnahme einiger der gegenwärtigen festgefahrenen Situationen, aus denen es einen Ausweg gäbe, wenn man mehr vorwirkte, trans. Joachim Schulte, Düsseldorf and Vienna: Econ, 1971, 214 pp; new ed., afterw. Karlheinz Barck and Martin Treml, Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2011, 224 pp. (German)
  • Guerra y paz en la aldea global, trans. José Méndez Herrera, Barcelona: Martínez Roca, 1971, 196 pp. (Spanish)
  • Chikyumura no senso to heiwa [地球村の戦争と平和], trans. Hidehiko Hirose, Tokyo: Ootobo Shobo, 1972, 235 pp. (Japanese)
  • Guerra e pace nel villaggio globale, Milan: Apogeo, 1995, 192 pp. (Italian)
  • Voyna i mir v globalnoy derevne [Война и мир в глобальной деревне], Moscow: AST Astrel, 2012, 219 pp. (Russian)

• with Harley Parker, Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting, New York: Harper & Row, 1968. (English)
  • O espaço na poesia e na pintura: atraves do ponto de fuga, trans. Edson Bini, Marcio Pugliesi and Norberto de Paula Lima, São Paulo: Hemus, 1975, xxiv+273 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Il punto di fuga: lo spazio in poesia e pittura, pref. Gianpiero Gamaleri, Milan: SugarCo, 1988, 285 pp. (Italian)
  • La aldea global: transformaciones en la vida y los medios de comunicación mundiales en el siglo XXI, trans. Claudia Ferrari, Barcelona: Gedisa, 1990, 203 pp. (Spanish)
  • Global köy: 21. yüzyılda yeryüzü yaşamında ve medyada meydana gelecek dönüşümler, trans. Bahar Öcal çev Düzgören, Istanbul: Scala, 2001, 320 pp. (Turkish)
  • Gurobaru virejji: 21seiki no sei to media no tenkan [グローバル・ヴィレッジ: 21世紀の生とメディアの転換], trans. Katsuhiko Asami, Tokyo: Seikyūsha, 2003, 366 pp. (Japanese)

• Culture Is Our Business, eds. Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970, 336 pp. (English)
  • La cultura es nuestro negocio, trans. Francisco J. Perea and Lorrain Ch. de Perea, México: Diana, 1974, 399 pp. (Spanish)

• with Wilfred Watson, From Cliché to Archetype, New York: Viking, 1970. [8] (English)
  • Du cliché à l'archétype: la foire du sens. Accompagné du dictionnaire des idées reçues de Gustave Flaubert, Montréal: HMH, 1973, 234 pp; Paris: Mame, 1973. (French)
  • Del clisé al arquetipo, trans. René Cárdenas Barrios, México: Diana, 1973, 270 pp. (Spanish)
  • Dal cliché all'archetipo : l'uomo tecnologico nel villaggio globale, trans. Francesca Gorjup Valente and Carla Plevano Pezzini, Milan: SugarCo, 1987, 270 pp. (Italian)

• with Barrington Nevitt, Take Today: The Executive as Drop Out, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. (English)

• with Kathryn Hutchon and Eric McLuhan, City as Classroom: Understanding Language and Media, The Book Society of Canada Limited, 1977; repr. as Media, Messages and Language: The World as your Classroom, Skokie, Ill: National Textbook Co., 1980. (English)
  • Città come aula: per capire il linguaggio e i media, trans. Amleto Lorenzini, Rome: A. Armando, 1984, 238 pp. (Italian)

• with Eric McLuhan, Laws of Media: The New Science, University of Toronto Press, 1988, 252 pp; 1992, ARG. (English)
  • Leyes de los medios: la nueva ciencia, trans. Juan José Utrilla, México: Alianza, 1990, 269 pp. (Spanish)
  • La legge dei media: la nuova scienza, trans. Alessandro Roffeni, Rome: Lavoro, 1994, 346 pp. (Italian)
  • Zakoni na mediite: novata nauka, Sofia: Universitetsko izd-vo sv. Kliment Okhridski, 1995, 256 pp. (Bulgarian)
  • Media no hōsoku [メディアの法則], trans. Hiroshi Takayama and Yutaka Nakazawa, Tokyo: NTT Shuppan, 2002, xxii+335 pp. (Japanese)

• with Bruce Powers, The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century, Oxford University Press, 1988. (English)
  • Il villaggio globale: XXI secolo: trasformazioni nella vita e nei media, trans. Francesca Gorjup Valente, Milan: SugarCo, 1992, 252 pp. (Italian)
  • La aldea global. Transformaciones en la vida y los medios de comunicación mundiales en el siglo XXI, trans. Claudia Ferrari, Barcelona: Gedisa, 1993. (Spanish)
  • The global village: der Weg der Mediengesellschaft in das 21. Jahrhundert, trans. Claus-Peter Leonhardt, Paderborn: Junfermann, 1995, 284 pp. (German)

• with Eric McLuhan, Media and Formal Cause, Neopoiesis Press, 2011. (English)
• with Eric McLuhan, Theories of Communication, New York: Peter Lang, 2011, xiv+253 pp. [9] (English)
• with Robert K. Logan, The Future of the Library: From Electric Media to Digital Media, New York: Peter Lang, 2016, xvi+238 pp. [10], [11]. Review: Spangenberg (Int Rev Educ). (English)
• with Eric McLuhan, The Lost Tetrads of Marshall McLuhan, New York: OR Books, 2017, 273 pp. (English)

Editor

• with Edmund Carpenter, Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication journal, issues 1-8, Toronto, 1953-1957; selected articles from issues 1-8 repr. as Explorations in Communication: An Anthology, 1960 (see below). The journal of the "communications group" (Carpenter, McLuhan, Easterbrook, Tyrwhitt, Williams); the central theme was 'media biases'. Issues 10-32. [12] [13] [14] (English)
  • Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations, Something Else Press, 1967, 61 pp. Revised issue 8 of Explorations (Oct 1957) in book format. (English)

• Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1956. (English)

• with Edmund Carpenter, Explorations in Communication: An Anthology, Boston: Beacon Press, 1960, 210 pp. Selection of articles from first eight issues of Explorations journal. (English)
  • Makurūhan nyūmon: Komyunikēshon no atarashii tankyū [マクルーハン入門 : コミュニケーションの新しい探求], trans. Masaomi Oomae and Kazuhiko Gotō, Tokyo: Saimaru Shuppankai, 1967, 210 pp; 1981. (Japanese)
  • El aula sin muros investigaciones sobre técnicas de comunicación, intro. Román Gubern, trans. Luis Carandell, 1968, 266 pp; 2nd ed., 1974. (Spanish)
  • Revolução na comunicação, trans. Alvaro Cabral, Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 1968, 248 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • El aula sin muros: investigaciones sobre técnicas de comunicación, trans. Luis Carandell, Barcelona: Cultura Popular, 1968, 266 pp. (Spanish)
  • La comunicazione di massa, Firenze: La Nuova Italia, 1969, xxxi+260 pp. (Italian)

• Voices of Literature, 2 vols., Holt, Rinehart & Winston of Canada, 1964-65. (English)

• Aspen 4, New York: Roaring Fork Press, Spring 1967. (English)

• with R.J. Schoeck, Voices of Literature, Book III: Sounds, Masks, Roles, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970. (English)

Selected essays, lectures and interviews

• The Interior Landscape: The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan 1943-1962, ed. Eugene McNamara, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. (English)
  • Die innere Landschaft: literarische Essays, trans. Donata Gräfin Finckenstein, Düsseldorf: Claassen, 1974, 297 pp. (German)
  • Il paesaggio interiore: la critica letteraria di Marshall McLuhan, Milan: SugarCo, 1983, 223 pp. (Italian)

• Mutations, trans. François Chesneau, Tours: Mame, 1969, 105 pp; Montréal: HMH, 1969. (French)
  • Mutacões en educacão segundo McLuhan, trans. Lauro de Oliveira Lima, Petrópolis: Vozes, 1971, 63 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)

• Stroomversnelling: de mens in het elektronisch tijdperk, trans. Wim van Gent, Hilversum: Paul Brand, 1970, 88 pp. (Dutch)

• with Josep Maria Casasús, Teoría de la imagen, Barcelona: Salvat, 1973, 142 pp. Interview. (Spanish)
  • Théorie de l'image, Paris: Laffont, 1975, 142 pp. (French)

• Wybór pism: Przekazniki, czyli przedluzenie czlowieka; Galaktyka Gutenberga; Poza punktem zbiegu, ed. Jacek Fuksiewicz, trans. Karol Jakubowicz, Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, 1975, 336 pp. (Polish)

• D'oeil à oreille, trans. Derrick de Kerckhove, Montréal: Hustubise HMH, 1977, 166 pp; Paris: Denoël/Gonthier, 1977. Interviews and articles from various sources which appeared between 1959-1973. (French)

• with Pierre Babin, Autre homme, autre chrétien à l'âge électronique, Lyon: Chalet, 1978, 191 pp. Interviews. (French)
  • Otro hombre, otro cristiano en la era electrónica, trans. Basilio Bustillo, Barcelona: Don Bosco, 1980, 135 pp. (Spanish)
  • Drugačen človek, drugačen kristjan v dobi elektronike, trans. Valter Dermota, Ljubljana: Katehetski center Ljubljana-Kodeljevo, 1980, 151 pp. (Slovenian)

• Wohin steuert die Welt? Massenmedien und Gesellschaftsstruktur, Vienna: Europaverlag, 1978, 259 pp. (German)

• Dall'occhio all'orecchio, ed. Gianpiero Gamaleri, Rome: Armando, 1986, 141 pp. (Italian)

• Marshall McLuhan: The Man and his Message, intro. John Cage, eds. George Sanderson and Frank Macdonald, Fulcrum, 1989. (English)
  • L'uomo e il suo messaggio: le leggi dei media, la violenza, l'ecologia, la religione, Milan: SugarCo, 1992, 206 pp. (Italian)

• The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion, eds. Eric McLuhan and Jacek Szklarek, Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 1992; Toronto: Stoddart, 2002, 224 pp. (English)
  • La luce e il mezzo: riflessioni sulla religione, ed. Giorgia Biolghini, trans. Gianluca Sanna, Rome: Armando, 2002, 220 pp. (Italian)

• Essential McLuhan, eds. Frank Zingrone and Eric McLuhan, New York: Basic Books, 1995. (English)
  • Mass-media sau mediul invizibil, trans. Mihai Moroiu, Bucharest: Nemira, 1997, 398 pp; 2nd ed. as Texte esenţiale, trans. Mihai Moroiu, Bucharest: Nemira, 2006, 606 pp. (Romanian)
  • McLuhan: escritos esenciales, trans. Jorge Basaldúa and Elvira Macías, Barcelona: Paidós, 1998, 492 pp. (Spanish)
  • La cultura come business: il mezzo è il messaggio, ed. Gianpiero Gamaleri, trans. Claudia Gasperini and Mario Gemelli, Rome: Armando, 1998, 158 pp. (Italian)
  • Media e nuova educazione: il metodo della domanda nel villaggio globale, ed. Ester Gandini Gamaleri, trans. Claudia Gasperini and Mario Gemelli, Rome: Armando, 1998, 175 pp. (Italian)
  • Le radici del cambiamento: Platone, Shakespeare e la TV, ed. Gianpiero Gamaleri, trans. Claudia Gasperini and Mario Gemelli, Rome: Armando, 1998, 206 pp. (Italian)
  • Percezioni: per un dizionario mediologico, ed. Gianpiero Gamaleri, Rome: Armando, 1998, 151 pp. (Italian)
  • Člověk, média a elektronická kultura: Výbor z díla, trans. Irena Přibylová and Martin Krejza, Brno: Jota, 2000, 420 pp. (Czech)
  • Wybór tekstów, trans. Ewa Różalska and Jacek M. Stokłosa, Poznań: Zysk i S-ka Wydaw., 2001, 581 pp. (Polish)

• Media Research: Technology, Art, Communication: Essays by Marshall McLuhan, ed. M.A. Moos, Amsterdam: G+B Arts International, 1997. [15] (English)

• Marshall McLuhan: tra letteratura, arte e media, ed. Elena Lamberti, Milan: Mondadori, 2000, 192 pp. (Italian)

• Das Medium ist die Botschaft, ed. & trans. Martin Baltes, Fritz Boehler, Rainer Höltschl and Jürgen Reuß, Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 2001, 301 pp. Talks and interviews. [16] (German)

• Absolute Marshall McLuhan, eds. Martin Baltes and Rainer Höltschl, Freiburg: Orange Press, 2002, 223 pp. Trans. of excerpts from McLuhan's writings and interviews; with biographical essay by Philip Marchand. (German)

• Understanding Me: Lectures & Interviews, eds. S. McLuhan and D. Staines, MIT Press, 2003. (English)
  • McLuhanŭk ihar: kŭŭi kangyonkwa taedam. (Korean)

• Marshall McLuhan Unbound, 20 vols., eds. Eric McLuhan and W. Terrence Gordon, Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2005, 412 pp. [17] (English)

• Letteratura e metafore della realtà, 3 vols., ed. Silvia D'Offizi, trans. Edmondo Coccia, Rome: Armando, 2009-2011. Vol. 1: Letteratura e metafore della realtà; vol. 2: La critica letteraria; vol. 3: Il mito e la rappresentazione artistica. (Italian)

• Jean Paré, Conversations avec McLuhan 1966-1973, Montréal: Boréal, 2010, 136 pp. [18] (French)

• with David Carson, The Book of Probes, eds. Eric McLuhan and William Kuhns, Gingko Press, 2011, 576 pp. Collection of aphorisms and excerpts. [19] (English)

• Aforismi e profezie, ed. Marco Pigliacampo, afterw. Derrick de Kerckhove, Rome: Armando, 2011, 190 pp. (Italian)

• Lo strano caso del Dr. McLuhan: viaggio sulle rotte perdute della mediologia, ed. & intro. Nicola Pentecoste, Rome: Armando, 2013, 173 pp. (Italian)

• McLuhan nello spirito del suo tempo, ed. Nicola Pentecoste, Rome: Armando, 2015, 279 pp. (Italian)

Essays, interviews

• "New Media and the Arts", Arts in Society 3(2): "The Avant-Garde Today", University of Wisconsin Press, Sep 1964, pp 239-242. (English)
• "Culture and Technology", in Astronauts of Inner-Space: An International Collection of Avant-Garde Activity, ed. Jeff Berner, San Francisco: Stolen Paper Review, and London: The Times, 1966, pp 18-19. (English)
• "The Galaxy Reconfigured or the Plight of Mass Man in an Individualistic Society", in The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, University of Toronto Press, 1962; repr. in The New Media Reader, eds. Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, MIT Press, 2003, pp 194-202. (English)
• "The Medium Is the Message", in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964; MIT Press, 1994; repr. in The New Media Reader, eds. Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, MIT Press, 2003, pp 203-209. (English)
• "Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan - A candid conversation with the high priest of popcult and metaphysician of media", Playboy, Mar 1969; repr. in Essential McLuhan, New York: BasicBooks, 1995, pp. 233-269. [20] (English)
  • "Marshall McLuhan versus Playboy aneb Upřímný rozhovor s veleknězem popkultur a metafyziky médií", in Člověk, média a elektronická kultura: Výbor z díla, Brno: Jota, 2000, pp 213-249. (Czech)
• "McLuhan's Laws of the Media", Technology and Culture, Jan 1975, pp 74-78. (English)
• with Robert K. Logan, "Alphabet, Mother of Invention", Etcetera 34, 1977, 373-383. (English)

Bibliographies

• At MarshallMcLuhan.com
• At U75102 Understanding Media

Correspondence

• Letters of Marshall McLuhan, eds. Matie Molinam, Corrine McLuhan, and William Toye, Oxford University Press, 1987, 562 pp. (English)
  • Corrispondenza, 1931-1979, pref. Gianpiero Gamaleri, eds. Corinne McLuhan, Matie Molinaro and Francesca Valente, Milan: SugarCo, 1990, 359+[16] pp. (Italian)

Literature

Journals

• McLuhan Studies, 6 issues, eds. Francesco Guardiani and Eric McLuhan, University of Toronto, c1996-99. (navigate through red squares) (English)
• International Journal of McLuhan Studies, eds. Matteo Ciastellardi and Emanuela Patti, Barcelona: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2011-2013. (English)
• New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, ed. Robert K. Logan, since 2020. (English)

Special issues

• Enculturation 12: "McLuhan at 100 - Picking Through the Rag and Bone Shop of a Career", eds. Kevin Brooks and David Beard, 2011. (English)
• Journal of Visual Culture 13(1): "Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man @ 50", ed. Raiford Guins, Sage, Apr 2014, 114 pp. (English)
• Imaginations 8(3): "Marshall McLuhan and the Arts", eds. Jaqueline McLeod Rogers and Adam Lauder, 2017, 171 pp. (English)

Monographs

• Gerald Emanuel Stearn (ed.), McLuhan: Hot & Cool: A Primer for the Understanding of & a Critical Symposium with a Rebuttal by McLuhan, New York: Dial Press, 1967. (English)
  • McLuhan, für und wider, trans. Elke Kummer, Düsseldorf: Econ, 1969, 367 pp. (German)
  • McLuhan: caliente & frio, trans. Horacio Laurora, Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 1973, 389 pp. (Spanish)
  • Vége a Gutenberg-Galaxisnak?, ed. & intro. László Halász, Budapest: Gondolat, 1985, 511 pp. (Hungarian)

• G. Gamaleri, La galassia McLuhan. Il mondo plasmato dai media?, 1976. (Italian)
• Daniel J. Czitrom, Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan, University of North Carolina Press, 1982, 254 pp. Review. (English)
• Arthur Kroker, Technology and the Canadian Mind: Innis, McLuhan, Grant, Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1984. (English)
• Graeme Patterson, History and Communication: Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, The Interpretation of History, University of Toronto Press, 1990, 251 pp. Publisher. (English)
• N. DeHart, Paul Benedetti (eds.), Forward through the Rear View Mirror: Reflections on and by Marshall McLuhan, Prentice-Hall, 1996. (English)
• Understanding Media, Voyager, 1996. CD-ROM. (English)
• Glenn Willmott, McLuhan, or Modernism in Reverse, University of Toronto Press, 1996, 262 pp. Publisher. (English)
• Paul Levinson, Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium, Routledge, 1999, 226 pp. (English)
• Gary Genosko, McLuhan and Baudrillard: The Masters of Implosion, Routledge, 1999. (English)
• Richard Cavell, McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography, University of Toronto Press, 2002, 360 pp. Publisher. (English)
• Janine Marchessault, Marshall McLuhan, Sage, 2004. (English)
• Robert K. Logan, Understanding New Media: Extending Marshall McLuhan, New York: Peter Lang, 2010, xxii+389 pp; 2nd ed., xviii+470 pp. Publisher. (English)
  • Li jie xin mei jie: Yan shen mai ke lu han [理解新媒介: 延伸麦克卢汉], Shanghai: Fu dan da xue chu ban she, 2012, 11+346 pp. (Chinese)
• W. Terrence Gordon, McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed, Continuum, 2010. (English)
• Jose Antonio Domingues, O paradigma mediologico - Debray depois de Mcluhan, LabCom, 2010. (Portuguese)
• We Are All Crew, ed. Michelle Kasprzak, Rotterdam: V2_, 2011, 64 pp.
• Elena Lamberti, Marshall McLuhan’s Mosaic: Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies, University of Toronto Press, 2012, 320 pp. Publisher. (English)
• Robert K. Logan, McLuhan Misunderstood: Setting the Record Straight, Toronto: Key Publishing House, 2013, 199 pp. [21] (English)
  • Fudan University Press. (Chinese)
• B.W. Powe, Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy, University of Toronto Press, 2014, 368 pp. Publisher. (English)
• Corey Anton, Robert K. Logan, Lance Strate (eds.), Taking Up McLuhan's Cause: Perspectives on Formal Causality and Media Ecology, Bristol: Intellect, 2017, xiii+287 pp. Publisher. [22] (English)
• Till A. Heilmann, Jens Schröter (eds.), Medien verstehen. Marshall McLuhans Understanding Media, Lüneburg: meson press, 2017, 202 pp. Publisher. (German)
• Peter Bexte, Martina Leeker (eds.), Ein Medium namens McLuhan. 37 Befragungen eines Klassikers, Lüneburg: meson press, 2020, 141 pp. Publisher. (German),(English)
• Sarah Sharma, Rianka Singh (eds.), Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan, Duke University Press, 2022, 280 pp. [23]

Biographies

• Philip Marchand, Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger, New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1989, 320 pp; MIT Press, 1998. (English)
  • Marshall McLuhan: Botschafter der Medien. Biographie, trans. Martin Baltes, Stuttgart: DVA, 1999, 431 pp. (German)
  • Maikeluhan: mei jie ji xin shi [麦克卢汉: 媒介及信使], trans. He Daokuan, Beijing: Zhongguo ren min da xue chu ban she, 2003, xviii+333 pp. (Chinese)
• W. Terrence Gordon, Marshall McLuhan: Escape Into Understanding, A Biography, Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2003, 480 pp. [24] (English)
• Douglas Coupland, Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!, New York: Atlas & Co, 2010, 224 pp. (English)
  • Marshall McLuhan, trans. Jean Paré, Montréal: Boréal, 2010, 256 pp. [25] (French)

Conference proceedings

• McLuhan e la metamorfosi dell'uomo, eds. Derrick de Kerckhove and Amilcare Iannucci, Rome: Bulzoni, 1984, 263 pp. Papers from the symposium held in Venice, 11-13 Nov 1982. (Italian)
• Pour comprendre 1984 / Understanding 1984, ed. Derrick de Kerckhove, Ottawa: Canadian Commission for Unesco, 1984, 330 pp. Papers delivered at the colloquium McLuhan and 1984, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, 14-16 Dec 1983. (French),(English)
• Marshall McLuhan + Vilém Flusser's Communication + Aesthetic Theories Revisited, eds. Melentie Pandilovski and Tom Kohut, Winnipeg: Video Pool Media Arts Centre, 2015. Proceedings of the 2012 conference. [26] (English)
• McLuhan: Social Media Between Faith and Culture, eds. Domenico Pietropaolo and Robert K. Logan, Ottawa: Legas, 2015. [27] [28] (English)

Essays

• Tom Wolfe, "The New Life Out There", in The New Life Out There, The New York Herald Tribune, 1965; repr. in McLuhan: Hot & Cool: A Primer for the Understanding of & a Critical Symposium with a Rebuttal by McLuhan, New York: Dial Press, ed. Gerald Emanuel Stearn, 1967, pp 15-34. (English)
• Gary Wolf, "Channeling McLuhan: The Wired Interview with the magazine's patron saint", Wired 4.01, Jan 1996. (English)
• Michael Litwack, "Extensions after Man: Race, Counter/insurgency and the Futures of Media Theory", Media, Culture & Society: "Encounters with Western Media Theory", 2021. (English)

Documentaries

• Out of Orbit: The Life and Times of Marshall McLuhan, dir. Carl Bessai, 45 min, 1999. TV documentary.

Recent conferences and exhibitions on McLuhan

• Feedback #1: Marshall McLuhan and the Arts, West, The Hague, 22 Sep-9 Nov 2017; Berlin, 2018; Paris, 2018; Toronto, 2019.
• Feedback: International Symposium. Moment of Truth: for a Reasonable Ecology between the Media, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 28-29 Sep 2017.

Links

• The Marshall McLuhan Estate
• Marshall McLuhan Speaks, a video collection, 2011.
• McLuhan at Gingko Press
• Marshall McLuhan Salon, the multimedia information centre of the Embassy of Canada in Berlin.
• Spectres of McLuhan, digital research resource
• Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute
• http://amodern.net/article/the-unknown-explorations/
• http://mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com/
• McLuhan at U75102 Understanding Media, an undergraduate module taught at Oxford Brookes University, UK.