Links to Explorations Issues #10 to #32 plus Tables of Contents of all Explorations Issues #1 to #32

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Robert K. Logan

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Links to

Explorations Issues #10 to

#32 plus Tables of Contents of all

Explorations Issues #1 to #32

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BSTRACT

Part I – A short history of the original Explorations journal edited by

Edmund Carpenter and Marshall McLuhan.

Part II – The online links to all of the 23 issues of Explorations from Issue

10 to Issue 32 covering the period from the Summer of 1964 to May of

1972.

Part III – The tables of contents of all 32 issues of Explorations which were

published in the following years: 1953 to 1957 (#1 to #8); 1959 (#9); and

1964 to 1972 (#10 to #32). Feel free to share this file acknowledging that it

was first published by New Explorations: Studies in Culture and

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Part I - A Short History of the journal Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication: Issues 1-32

The original Explorations consisted of Issues #1 through #8 and were jointly edited by Edmund Carpenter and Marshall McLuhan published between 1953 and 1957 at the University of Toronto.

Issue #9 entitled Eskimo was edited by Edmund Carpenter and consisted of text by him and images by Robert Flaherty and Frederick Varley.

Issues #1 to #8 and #9 were stand-alone issues but issues #10 to #32 were inserts in two University of Toronto alumni magazines:

Issues #10 through #19 were inserts in the Varsity Graduate published from May 1964 to the Summer of 1967

Issues #20 through #32 were inserts in the University of Toronto Graduate published from Xmas of 1967 to the Spring of 1972.

Explorations in Communication, an Anthology, edited by Edmund Carpenter and Marshall McLuhan is a collection of articles from the first eight issues of the journal Explorations that was published in 1960 in Boston by Beacon Press. The book is now out of print but used copies are available at amazon.com and www.abebooks.com

Part II – The Online Links to the 23 Issues of Explorations (#10-#32)

The links to issues #10 through #32 provide public access for the first time for the media ecology and McLuhan studies community of this material that here to fore were only accessible in the archives of the University of Toronto’s Fisher Rare Book Library. Feel free to share this information gathered by the New Explorations journal with the help of the staff of the Fisher and please be so kind to reference where this information came from.

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The following 23 issues of Explorations (#10 through #32) are available on line. For issues #10 through #19 clicking on the links for Varsity Graduate 11, 12 & 13 will take you to the entire Varsity Graduate magazine and so you must find the pages indicated for each issue where the Explorations insert starts. The page numbers in the Varsity Graduate magazine are given for each of these issues. Varsity Graduate 11 contains 4 issues of exploration, Varsity Graduate 12, 3 issues and Varsity Graduate 13, 3 issues.

The other links for issues #20 through #32 will take you directly to the Explorations inserts.

https://archive.org/details/varsitygraduate11univ

Contains: Summer 1964 (10); Xmas 1964 (11); Spring 1965 (12); Summer 1965 (13) • Issue 10 of Explorations begins on p. 154/708 of this file which is p. 49 of the Summer 1964 issue of the Varsity Graduate.

• Issue 11 of Explorations begins on p. 181/264 of this file which is p. 49 of the Xmas 1964 issue of the Varsity Graduate.

• Issue 12 of Explorations begins on p. 49/264 of this file which is p. 49 of the Spring 1965 issue of the Varsity Graduate.

• Issue 13 of Explorations begins on p. 623/708 of this file which is p. 49 of the Summer 1965 issue of the Varsity Graduate.

Contains: Xmas 1965 (14); Spring 1966 (15); Summer 1966 (16)

• Issue 14 of Explorations begins on p. 57/452 of this file which is p. 49 of the Xmas 1965 issue of the Varsity Graduate.

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Contains: Xmas 1966 (17); Spring 1967 (18); Summer 1967 (19)

• Issue 17 of Explorations begins on p. 45/480 of this file which is p. 37 of the Xmas1966 issue of the Varsity Graduate.

https://archive.org/details/explorationschristmas1967/mode/2up Contains: Xmas 67 (20) https://archive.org/details/explorationsspring1968/mode/2up Contains: Spring 68 (21) https://archive.org/details/explorationssummer1968/mode/2up Contains: Summer 68 (22) https://archive.org/details/explorationschristmas1968/mode/2up Contains: November 68 (23)

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https://archive.org/details/graduate2no2uoft/

Contains: Spring 1969 (24)

• Issue 24 of Explorations begins on p. 81/121 of this file which is p. 81 of the Spring 1969 issue of the University of Toronto Graduate.

https://archive.org/details/explorationssummer1969/mode/2up

Contains: Summer 69 (25)

https://archive.org/details/explorationschristmas1969/mode/2up

Contains: Xmas 69/Winter 70 (26)

https://archive.org/details/graduate3no2uoft

Contains: Spring 1970 (27)

• Issue 27 of Explorations begins on p. 65/97 of this file which is p. 65 of the Spring 1970 issue of the University of Toronto Graduate.

https://archive.org/details/explorationssummer1970/mode/2up

Contains: Summer 70 (28)

https://archive.org/details/graduate3no4uoft/page/88

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• Issue 29 of Explorations begins on p. 89/137 of this file which is p. 89 of the Winter 1970-71 issue of the University of Toronto Graduate.

https://archive.org/details/explorationsspring1971/mode/2up Contains: Spring 71 (30)

Contains: Jan 1972 (31)

• Issue 31 of Explorations begins on p. 45/73 of this file which is p. 45 of the January 1972 issue of the University of Toronto Graduate.

Contains: May 1972 (32)

• Issue 32 of Explorations begins on p. 41/65 of this file which is p. 41 of the May 1972 issue of the University of Toronto Graduate.

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Part IIIa - Table of Contents of Explorations 1- 8

Explorations issues 1 through 8 were stand-alone journals published between 1954 and 1957 in Toronto and edited by Edmund Carpenter and Marshall McLuhan. They have been reissued and published in 2016 by Wipf and Stock based in Eugene Oregon with an introduction and annotations by Michael Darroch and Janine Marchessault.

Table of Contents of Explorations 1

Six Copernican Revolutions David Bidney

Cronus and Chronos E. R. Leach

Communications by Means of Gongs John F. Carrington

Veblen’s System of Social Science David Riesman

Customs of Majorca Robert Graves

Stress Hans Selye

Art and Science György Kepes

A Typology of Functional Analysis Melford Spiro

An Account of Witchcraft at Mohra Anthony Horneck

Freud and Hucksters Ralph Goodman

Not for Children G. Legman

Culture without Literacy H. M. McLuhan

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Media as Art Forms Marshall McLuhan

Jung, Alchemy and Self D.S. Savage

Ideal Cities and the City Ideal Jacqueline Tyrwhitt

Theoretical Anthropology Dorothy Lee

Eternal Life Edmund Carpenter

Here Comes Everybody Donald Theall

Social Classes Lord Raglan

Veblen’s System of Social Science 2 David Riesman

The Pirate’s Wardroom Stanley Edgar Hyman,

Self and Its Behavioural Environment A. Irving Hallowell.

Reading and Writing H.J. Chaytor

Hojoki: A Fugitive Essay Kamo Chomei

Kinesics and Communications Ray Birdwhistell

Utopia and Counter-Utopia Martha Wolfenstein

The Imagination in Tristam Shandy Dorothy Lee

Certain Media Biases Kenneth MacLean

Experiment in Communication D.C. Williams

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Monopoly and Civilization H. A. Innis

The Incident at Tanyrallt W.H. McCulloch

New Media as Political Forms Marshall McLuhan

A Science of Human Behaviour Anthony F.C. Wallace,

Culture and Communications G.L. Trager, and E.T. Hall

Meat Packing and Processing

Freedom and the American Language Dorothy Lee

Acoustic Space D.C. Williams

Mutations Jorge Luis Borges Poem

or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal e.e. Cummings

Implications of English Grammar Joan Rayfield

Five Sovereign Fingers Taxed the Breath

Dylan Thomas Marjorie Adix

Tower of Words Millar McLure

Media Log

Space, Time and Poetry Marshall McLuhan

Our Enchanted Lives

Tactile Communication Lawrence K. Frank

Time in Spanish Epic Poetry Stephen Gilman

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Space in Renaissance Symbolism Walter J. Ong

Eskimo Poetry: Word Magic Edmund Carpenter

Propositions about Language Francis Golffing

The Moving Eye J. Tyrwhitt

Mass Media and Retention J. Paul & J. Ogilvie Idea

File E.T. Hall, Jr and

G.L. Trager

Talking Instruments in Africa Robert G. Armstrong

Buddhist Symbolism Daisetz T. Suzuki

The ABCED-minded Marshall McLuhan

Joyce’s Wake W.R. Rodgers

Channel Cat in the Middle Distance

Time and False Noses E.R. Leach

The Caine Mutiny Rhoda Métraux

The Road to Dead’s Town Roy Campbell

Language and Culture Claire Holt

Duality Run Wild Joan Rayfield

Turks in Transition D. Lerner & D. Riesman

Idea File E.R. Leach, Nino Franck,

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Francis L. K. Hsu Lawrence K. Frank

The City Unseen J. Tyrwhitt and D. Williams

The Information Concept Kenneth Boulding

Communication and Economists W.T. Easterbrook

Time space Concepts of the Child Jean Piaget

Eskimo Space Concepts Edmund Carpenter

Pascal and Les Connaissances Naturelles Harcourt Brown

Linguistic Reflection on Wintu Thought Dorothy Lee

The Media Fit the Battle of Jericho Marshall McLuhan

Television’s Form of Drama Paddy Chayefsky

The Oral and Written Traditions David Riesman

The Fabulous Photograph Roland Gelatt

The Structure of Spanish History S. Gilman & R.H. Pearce

Space Conceptions in Prehistoric Art Sigfried Giedion

Colour as Symbol Harley Parker

Language and the Magic Sign Jacque Maritain

Soviet Television V. Sharoyeva

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Print’s Monopoly C. S. Lewis

Dylan Thomas Worksheets Ralph Maud

Feet of Clay

The Evolution of the Human Mind M.F. Ashley Montagu

The New Languages Edmund Carpenter

Classroom Without Walls Songs of Pogo

Lineal and Nonlineal Codification of Reality Dorothy Lee

Comments on Lineal and Nonlineal Codifications Robert Graves

Lineal and Nonlineal Descriptions of People

Symbolization and Value Dorothy Lee

Comments on Symbolization and Value Robert Graves

Jazz and Modern Letters Eternal Ones of Dreams

Pure Colour Fernand Léger

Communication Revolution Gilbert Seldes

The English Revolution K. Polyani, J. Wain,

C. Salmon The Effect of the Printed Book on

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Elvis Presley in Russia Soviet Culture David Riesman and the Avant Garde

The Soviet Press B. Inkles, A. Gibson

Soviet Novels

Time Can Be Any Shape J.R. Rayfield

TV at Political Conventions Robert F. Bradford

TV and Press in Politics Bruce L. Felknor

The Bawdy Song G. Legman

1. Brain Storming

2. American Model 1795 3. Electronics as E. S. P. 4. The Be-Spoke Tailor 5. The Journalist’s Dilemma

6. Patterns of Oral Strategy in the U.S.S.R. 7. The Bathroom Baritone and the Wide 8. Stress

9. Oral-Anal

10. Sherlock Holmes VS the Bureaucrat 11. Verbi-Voco-Visual

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13.Milton Had His Daughters, I have My Dictaphone 14. The Alchemy of Social Change

15. The Organization Man

16. Characterization in Western Art 1600 -1900 17. The Liturgical Revival

18. How About Wine

19. Television Murders Telephony 20. People of the Word

21. Churchill Mobilizes the English Language 22. Eminent Extrapolators

23. The Old New rich and the New New Rich 24. No Upside Down in Eskimo Art

A Bridge in Time V.J. Papanek

Oral to Written J.B. Bessinger

Third program in the Human Age Marshall McLuhan

The Semantics of Money-Uses Karl Polanyi

Common Law and the Oral Tradition Carl C. Hollis

The Military Breakthrough in Lineality David Hogg

Part IIIb - Table of Contents of Explorations 9

Issue 9 entitled Eskimo consists of text by Edmund Carpenter and images by Robert Flaherty and Frederick Varley. There is no formal table of contents for this issue. It is the only issue of Explorations that Marshall McLuhan had no part in. It was published as a book with the simple title Eskimo in 1959 in Toronto by the University of Toronto Press

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and is out of print. It can be found in many university libraries and some public libraries. Used copies can be found on Amazon and

Part IIIc - Table of Contents of Explorations 10-32

Table of Contents of Explorations 10 – Summer 1964

The Artist as Crowd Master Sheila Watson

The Eskimo Mask: The Audience as Artist Edmund Carpenter

Inbsenist Theatre and the Theatre of the Absurd Wilfred Watson

Towards a Perceptual Typology and a Collective Persona Daniel Cappon

Masks and Roles and the Corporate Image Marshall McLuhan

Table of Contents of Explorations 11 – Xmas 1964

Changing Perceptions from the Pictorial to the Iconic Harley Parker

Architecture and the Corporate Image Allen Bernholz

Australopithecus and the Electronic Brain Wilfred Watson

The University in the Electronic Age the End of the

Gap between Theory and Practice Marshall McLuhan

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Dialog on the Prospects of Recordings Glenn Gould

Scott Fitzgerald and the Film John Grube

Higher Mass Education Observed Jasper Rose

The Hindu Eliot Jitendra Kumar

Table of Contents of Explorations 14 – Xmas 1965

Power: Nude or Naked Sheila Watson

The Visual Unseen Harley W. Parker

Table of Contents of Explorations 15 – Spring 1966

If Wittgenstein had been an Eskimo Edmund Carpenter

Mathematics and the Language of Literary Criticism R.J. Schoek

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A Brother to One Intelligence Dr. Daniel Cappon

Why Do People Scream? Audrey Fuss

Table of Contents of Explorations 18 - Spring 1967

Predicting Scientific Prediction Barrington Nevitt

Table of Contents of Explorations 19 - Summer 1967

Color TV and all that T. Joseph Scanlon

Space in Physics and Cosmology Barrington Nevitt

Table of Contents of Explorations 20 - Xmas 1967

“Bucky” Buckminster Fuller

The Library Environment James Feeley

The Cinema of the Future Hugh D. Lumsden

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We Wed Ourselves to the Mystery Edmund Carpenter

The Multi-national Corporation and

The Communication of Values A. E. Safarian

Autovivisection J. R. Rayfield

Plastic Sound and Frozen Symbol Remi Gassman

Table of Contents of Explorations 23 - Nov-Xmas 1968

Response to New Media: Robert F. Sisk’s Robert F. Sisk

“The Movies Try to Talk (1928).”

With a Foreword by Marshall McLuhan

The Most Important Word in Shakespeare Wilfred Watson

Preliminary Observations on Breakdown as Breakthrough Marshall McLuhan

Apeneck Sweeney Michael O’Brien

Puppets and Greek Tragedy: The Dream Landscape Peter Arnott

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The early years of Harold Innis Donald Creighton

Harold Innis Marshall McLuhan

“The Idea File” some excerpts Harold Innis

Salt and scandal in the Gospels Marshall McLuhan

& Joe Keogh

The Buddhist Fade-out in Eliot and Hesse Elizabeth McLuhan

Information Systems and their Users Gordon Thompson

Icarus Lost R. J. Schoek

The University and the City Marshall McLuhan

The Power of Music Zoltan B. Dienes

The Development of the Japanese Transportation System Fred Thompson

Soviet Psychology in Postwar Prison Camps a former Hungarian

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Oh what a blow that phantom gave Me (Don Quixote) Edmund Carpenter

The horse that is known by touch alone Harley Parker

Torquemada and 1984 J. G. Keogh

The Universal Xerox Life Compiler Machine William Jovanovich

The Executive as Dropout Marshall McLuhan and

Barrington Nevitt

Moral Progress and the Media Edmund Carpenter

Shakespeare, the Lay Rector of the Collegiate

Church of The Holy Trinity Stratford-upon-Avon Marshall McLuhan

Self-imposed Audience Research Report submitted by the

Students

Philosophie Concrete: It’s Weird Derrick de Kerckhove

Rock and the Sound of Music Marshall McLuhan

The Calley Trial and the Changing Patterns of the Judiciary Marshall McLuhan The Hijacking of Cities, Nations, Planets,

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The Case of Eric Kierans and the Executive as Dropout Marshall McLuhan and Barrington Nevitt

Speech to the Friends of the Hebrew University Ernest Sirlock

Table of Contents of Explorations 31 - Jan 1972

Engineering, Job or Role Barrington Nevitt

Generic Names in Ontario Michael Smart

An Interview About Typewriters Jack David

Museum as a Perception Kit Harley Parker

A hundred years after F. T. Flahiff

Arabic Script David Stansfield

Ecology of Science George C. Haour

Prologue and Epilogue – an excerpt from

The Open University: Access to What? Gwendoline Pilkington

The Intelligence Community

And Figure/Ground Awareness Robert W. Hoke

Acknowledgement: We wish to acknowledge that the online links to the Exploration Issues 10 through 32 were created by the Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of

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Toronto from their archived collection of the issues of Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication. We particularly wish to thank and acknowledge the help of Tys Klumpenhouwer for organizing the online archiving of the last 8 issues of Explorations in time for the release of our inaugural issue of the New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication. This now