The Book of Probes contains a assortment of aphorisms and maxims from the work of the Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, each one set to evocative imagery by American graphic designer David Carson. McLuhan called the utterances collected in this book "probes," that is, pieces of conceptual gadgetry designed not to disclose facts about the world so much as blaze new pathways leading to the invisible background of our time. In this episode, Phil and JF use an online number generator to discuss a random yet uncannily cohesive selection of of McLuhanian probes.

REFERENCES

Marshall Mcluhan and David Carson, The Book of Probes

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Marshall Mcluhan, The Mechanical Bride

Aristotle, System of causation

G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Eric A. Havelock, Preface to Plato

Weird Studies, Episode 71 on Marshall Mcluhan

Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy

Christiaan Wouter Custers, A Philosophy of Madness

Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense

Marshall Mcluhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy

Harry Partch, American composer

Marc Augé, Non-Places

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Denis Villeneuve (dir.), Arrival

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus

Harry G. Frankfurt, On Bullshit

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