James Dilley
@jd-1995.bsky.social
PhD History student at the University of Cambridge. Working on the thought of Marshall McLuhan. Supervised by Professor Duncan Bell.
‘Chesterton’s apologetics had recommended Catholic teaching as a liberation from the oppressive scientism and faded liberalism of his age, which let the numinous weirdness of reality back in.’’ @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social on literary conversions. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Ledger-Lomas · Pattern in the Carpet: Novel Catholics
In accepting Catholic authority, writers unleashed their imaginations. As Graham Greene said, quoting Saki, ‘When once...
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Thank you to the editors at @uoftpress.bsky.social and the Canadian Journal of Communication for publishing my review essay of Grant Havers’s 2025 book “The Medium is Still the Message: Marshall #Mcluhan for Our Time.” cjc.utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...
The Medium is Still the Message: Marshall McLuhan for Our Time. By Grant N. Havers | Canadian Journal of Communication
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An accurate and well-written piece by an undergraduate at the University of Warwick, which hints at the pressing need for a reappraisal of McLuhan’s opus
Marshall McLuhan was not a globalist
by João Ruy Faustino
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Catholic convert, professor of English, patron saint of #SiliconValley: Canadian philosopher Marshall #McLuhan was one of the most famous and idiosyncratic public intellectuals of the 20th-century Anglophone world. Yet most now know little of him beyond a cameo appearance in Annie Hall.
Why Did the World Forget Marshall McLuhan?
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