Marshall McLuhan

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 Unpublished.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

Books

• The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man, New York: Vanguard Press, 1951; Gingko Press, 2002, 160 pp; London: Duckworth Overlook, 2011. [2]

• Counterblast, 1954; Gingko Press, 2011. Distributed in 1954 as a hand-made 'zine'. [3]
  • Counterblast, New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1970; Gingko Press, 2010.
  • Contraexplosión, trans. Isidoro Gelstein, 1971. (in Spanish)

• The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, University of Toronto Press, 1962, 300 pp; 2011, 336 pp.
  • La galassia Gutenberg. Nascita dell'uomo tipografico, trans. Stefano Rizzo, Rome: Armando, 1976. (in Italian)
  • "Gutenbergova galaxie", in Člověk, média a elektronická kultura: Výbor z díla, Brno: Jota, 2000, pp 105-158. (in Czech)

• 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]
  • Jak rozumět médiím: Extenze člověka, trans. Miloš Calda, Prague: Odeon, 1991, 352 pp. (in Czech)
  • Die magischen Kanäle: Understanding Media, trans. Meinrad Amann, 1992. (in German)
  • Razumijevanje medija, trans. David Prpa, 2008. (in Croatian)

• with Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, Bantam Books, 1967; Gingko Press, 2001, 160 pp; Penguin, 2008; Gingko Press, 2011. Coordinated by Jerome Agel. [5]
  • El medio es el masaje. Un inventario de efectos, trans. León Mirlas, Buenos Aires: Paidos, 1969. (in Spanish)
  • O meio são as massa-gens, trans. Ivan Pedro de Martins, Rio de Janeiro, 1969, 187 pp. (in Brazilian Portuguese)

• 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. [6]
• with Harley Parker, Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting, New York: Harper & Row, 1968.
• Culture Is Our Business, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970.
• with Wilfred Watson, From Cliché to Archetype, New York: Viking, 1970. [7]
• with Barrington Nevitt, Take Today: The Executive as Drop Out, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972.

• 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.
  • Città come aula. Per capire il linguaggio e i media, trans. A. Lorenzini, 1980. (in Italian)

• with Eric McLuhan, Laws of Media: The New Science, University of Toronto Press, 1988, 252 pp; 1992.

• with Bruce Powers, The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century, Oxford University Press, 1988.
  • La aldea global. Transformaciones en la vida y los medios de comunicación mundiales en el siglo XXI, trans. Claudia Ferrari, Barcelona: Gedisa, 1993. (in Spanish)

• with Eric McLuhan, Media and Formal Cause, Neopoiesis Press, 2011.
• with Eric McLuhan, Theories of Communication, Peter Lang, 2011.

Editor

• associate editor, Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication journal, 9 issues, ed. Ted Carpenter, Toronto, 1953-59; selected articles published as Explorations in Communication, 1960 (see below). The journal of the "communications group" (Carpenter, McLuhan, Easterbrook, Tyrwhitt, Williams); the central theme was 'media biases'. [8] [9] [10]
  • Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations, Something Else Press, 1967, 61 pp. Revised issue 8 of Explorations (Oct 1957) in book format.

• Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1956.
• with Edmund Carpenter (eds.), Explorations in Communication: An Anthology, Boston: Beacon Press, 1960, 210 pp.
  • El aula sin muros investigaciones sobre técnicas de comunicación, trans. Luis Carandell, 1968; 2nd ed., 1974. (in Spanish)
• Voices of Literature, 2 vols., Holt, Rinehart & Winston of Canada, 1964-65.
• with R. J. Schoeck (eds.), Voices of Literature, Book III: Sounds, Masks, Roles, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970.

Selected Articles and Interviews

• "New Media and the Arts", Arts in Society 3(2): "The Avant-Garde Today", University of Wisconsin Press, Sep 1964, pp 239-242.
• "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.
• "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
• "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.
• "Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan - A candid conversation with the high priest of popcult and metaphysician of media", Playboy (March 1969); repr. in Essential McLuhan, New York: BasicBooks, 1995, pp. 233-269. [11]
  • "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. (in Czech)
• "McLuhan's Laws of the Media", Technology and Culture (January 1975), pp 74-78.

Collected Writings, Lectures and Interviews

• The Interior Landscape: The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan 1943-1962, ed. Eugene McNamara, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969.
• Marshall McLuhan: The Man and his Message, eds. George Sanderson and Frank Macdonald, Fulcrum, 1989. Introduction by John Cage.
• 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.
• Essential McLuhan, eds. Frank Zingrone and Eric McLuhan, New York: Basic Books, 1995.
  • Člověk, média a elektronická kultura: Výbor z díla, trans. Irena Přibylová and Martin Krejza, Brno: Jota, 2000, 420 pp. (in Czech)
• Media Research: Technology, Art, Communication: Essays by Marshall McLuhan, ed. M.A. Moos, Amsterdam: G+B Arts International, 1997. [12]
• Understanding Me: Lectures & Interviews, eds. S. McLuhan and D. Staines, MIT Press, 2003.
• Marshall McLuhan Unbound, eds. Eric McLuhan and W. Terrence Gordon, Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2005, 412 pp. [13]
• with David Carson, The Book of Probes, eds. Eric McLuhan and William Kuhns, Gingko Press, 2011, 576 pp. Collection of aphorisms and excerpts. [14]

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.

Literature

Monographs

• 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.
• 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.
• G. Gamaleri, La galassia McLuhan. Il mondo plasmato dai media?, 1976. (in Italian)
• Daniel J. Czitrom, Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan, University of North Carolina Press, 1982, 254 pp. Review.
• Arthur Kroker, Technology and the Canadian Mind: Innis, McLuhan, Grant, Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1984.
• Graeme Patterson, History and Communication: Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, The Interpretation of History, University of Toronto Press, 1990, 251 pp. [15]
• Gary Wolf, "Channeling McLuhan: The Wired Interview with the magazine's patron saint", Wired 4.01 (Jan 1996).
• Forward through the Rear View Mirror: Reflections on and by Marshall McLuhan, eds. N. DeHart and Paul Benedetti, Prentice-Hall, 1996.
• Understanding Media, Voyager, 1996. CD-ROM.
• Glenn Willmott, McLuhan, or Modernism in Reverse, University of Toronto Press, 1996, 262 pp. [16]
• Paul Levinson, Digital McLuhan. A Guide to the Information Millennium, Routledge, 1999, 226 pp.
• Richard Cavell, McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography, University of Toronto Press, 2002, 360 pp. [17]
• Janine Marchessault, Marshall McLuhan, Sage, 2004.
• W. Terrence Gordon, McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed, Continuum, 2010.
• Jose Antonio Domingues, O paradigma mediologico - Debray depois de Mcluhan, LabCom, 2010. (in Portuguese)
• Elena Lamberti, Marshall McLuhan’s Mosaic: Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies, University of Toronto Press, 2012, 320 pp. [18]
• B.W. Powe, Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy, University of Toronto Press, 2014, 368 pp. [19]

Biographies

• Philip Marchand, Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger, New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1989, 320 pp; MIT Press, 1998.
• W. Terrence Gordon, Marshall McLuhan: Escape Into Understanding, A Biography, Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2003, 480 pp. [20]
• Douglas Coupland, Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!, New York: Atlas & Co, 2010, 224 pp.

Journals

• McLuhan Studies, 6 issues, eds. Francesco Guardiani and Eric McLuhan, University of Toronto, c1996-99. (navigate through red squares)
• International Journal of McLuhan Studies, eds. Matteo Ciastellardi and Emanuela Patti, Barcelona: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, since 2011.

Special issues

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

Documentaries

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

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.
• 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.