Tag Archives: Marshall McLuhan

1914, 1939, 1964, 1989, 2014 … war and generational change

Posted on 28 March 2013 by Propagandum

All these dates are important – aren’t they? – bar one. Two world wars started, and one – 1989, the First Cold War – finished. I’ll leave 2014 till the end, but 1964 is the most interesting because most obviously the … Continue reading →

Posted in Film criticism, HIstory, Media analysis, Politics | Tagged 1960s, 1964, 1968, 1989, 2014 anniversaries, Cold War, Counterculture, Cuban Missile Crisis, Harold Wilson, Karl Marx, Marshall McLuhan, Modern history, Red Army Faction, Saving Private Ryan, Second World War, Steven Spielberg, Student revolt, Thoughts of Chairman Mao, Tony Judt, Vietnam War | Leave a comment

Inventing the future – the earliest mention of the word ‘wordpress’?

Posted on 31 July 2012 by Propagandum

Two ifs: if there was a search engine that filtered on the earliest mention of, and if we then looked up ‘WordPress’, we would find this, by James Joyce, from 1939: A bone, a pebble, a ramskin; chip them, chap … Continue reading →

Posted in Words, Writing | Tagged Blake, Creativity, Finnegans Wake, James Joyce, Large Hadron Collider, Marshall McLuhan, Murray Gell-Mann, WordPress, Words, Writing | 8 Comments

Tag Archives: Marshall McLuhan

1914, 1939, 1964, 1989, 2014 … war and generational change

Inventing the future – the earliest mention of the word ‘wordpress’?

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