http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2127 Comments for "McLuhan Way" en http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2127 <p>News@UofT reports on the re-dubbing (subtitling?) of St. Joseph Street between Bay and the Coach House at Queens Park as <a title="University of Toronto -- News@UofT -- Street named for Marshall McLuhan (August 19, 2004)" href="http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/040819-373.asp">Marshall McLuhan Way</a> ..</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://www.mcluhan.ca/marshall_mcluhan_way.phtml"><img src="http://www.mcluhan.ca/images/content/mm_sign.jpg" alt="" height="114" width="250" class="right" /></a> <i>It was here that his notions of mass communications, the impact of television and advertising and their effects on society were developed and disseminated. ...<br/><br /> "A road is a good metaphor" said Professor Brian Cantwell Smith, dean of the Faculty of Information Studies. "I once met a lama from Lhasa who told me, 'Every road is connected to every other road'. Marshall McLuhan's work was about the process of seeing further. This road naming reminds us about nourishing and building the process of looking."</i></p></blockquote> <p>After some tenuous years when we really didn't know what was going on, the <a href="http://www.mcluhan.utoronto.ca/" title="latest news from teh Coach House">McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology</a> is back at the Coach House; Marshall McLuhan Way also passes a commemmorative plaque and a sculpture of great western thinkers that places <a href="http://www.mcluhan.ca/" title="see also the Global Research Network">Marshall McLuhan</a> between Chaucer and Dante.</p> http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2127#comments the skin of culture Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:41:33 -0400 mrG 2127 at http://blog.teledyn.com