Inside the McLuhan Institute

Andrew sitting at his desk with piles of books and other assorted items cluttering his desk including a custom black Converse shoe
A series of DEW Line card decks sitting on a white bookshelf in front of the spines of books by author Marshall McLuhan
White bookshelves stuffed full of McLuhan and media ecology related books inside the McLuhan Institute

It’s always nice to be back home in Ontario (oppressive summer heat and humidity notwithstanding) and especially to spend some time with my brother-in-law Andrew in the library and with our shared extended family.

I recently donated my last unopened copy of the McLuhan DEW Line card deck1 (shown in the second photo) to the Letterform Archive, and so the timing of being back in town works out well to grab a couple more to keep on hand in California. It’s also a treat to see the latest additions to the library and poke around other unexplored volumes from the library’s thousands of books.

Footnotes

  1. The DEW Line card deck was a bonus included with one of the issues of the McLuhan DEW Line newsletter published around 1969 and is considered a precursor to Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies which similarly contains brief aphorisms to help readers shift their perspective to new ways of solving problems or getting un-stuck. ↩