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Vol 1 № 1 (Spring 2020)
Links to Explorations Issues #10 to #32 plus Tables of Contents of all Explorations Issues #1 to #32
ABSTRACT
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 Communication: Vol 1 № 1 (Spring 2020).
Robert K. Logan [email protected]
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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.
Links and Tables of Contents for Explorations
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.
https://archive.org/details/varsitygraduate12univ
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.
• Issue 15 of Explorations begins on p. 233/452 of this file which is p. 49 of the Spring 1966 issue of the Varsity Graduate. 4 New Explorations: Studies in Culture & Communication
• Issue 16 of Explorations begins on p. 49/176 of this file which is p. 49 of the Summer 1966 issue of the Varsity Graduate.
https://archive.org/details/varsitygraduate13univ
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.
• Issue 18 of Explorations begins on p. 261/480 of this file which is p. 49 of the Spring 1967 issue of the Varsity Graduate.
• Issue 19 of Explorations begins on p. 65/136 of this file which is p. 65 of the Summer 1967 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) Links and Tables of Contents for Explorations
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
Contains: Winter 1970-71 (29) 6 New Explorations: Studies in Culture & Communication
• 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)
https://archive.org/details/graduate4no1uoft
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.
https://archive.org/details/graduate4no2uoft
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.
Part III - Tables of Contents of Explorations 1- 32 Links and Tables of Contents for Explorations
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
Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes Northrop Frye
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Table of Contents of Explorations 2
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.
Table of Contents of Explorations 3
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
Soviet Ethnography I. Potekin & M. Lewin Links and Tables of Contents for Explorations
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
Table of Contents of Explorations 4
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
The Party Line Northrop Frye 10 New Explorations: Studies in Culture & Communication
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
Table of Contents of Explorations 5
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,
Patrick Geddes, Links and Tables of Contents for Explorations
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
Table of Contents of Explorations 6
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
Time and the Drama Lister Sinclair 12 New Explorations: Studies in Culture & Communication
Print’s Monopoly C. S. Lewis
Dylan Thomas Worksheets Ralph Maud
Feet of Clay
The Evolution of the Human Mind M.F. Ashley Montagu
Table of Contents of Explorations 7
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
Language in the Sixteenth Century Marshall McLuhan Links and Tables of Contents for Explorations
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
Table of Contents of Explorations 8
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
12. Print as Patterkiller 14 New Explorations: Studies in Culture & Communication
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 Links and Tables of Contents for Explorations
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
Table of Contents of Explorations 12 – Spring 1965 16 New Explorations: Studies in Culture & Communication
Dialog on the Prospects of Recordings Glenn Gould
Scott Fitzgerald and the Film John Grube
Table of Contents of Explorations 13 – Summer 1965
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
Table of Contents of Explorations 16 – Summer 1966
Mathematics and the Language of Literary Criticism R.J. Schoek
Table of Contents of Explorations 17 – Xmas 1966 Links and Tables of Contents for Explorations
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
Table of Contents of Explorations 21 - Spring 1968
The Cinema of the Future Hugh D. Lumsden
Science Technology and the Humanities John W. Abrams
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Table of Contents of Explorations 22 - Summer 1968
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
Table of Contents of Explorations 24 - Spring 1969
Preliminary Observations on Breakdown as Breakthrough Marshall McLuhan
Apeneck Sweeney Michael O’Brien
Puppets and Greek Tragedy: The Dream Landscape Peter Arnott
Table of Contents of Explorations 25 - Summer 1969
Links and Tables of Contents for Explorations
The early years of Harold Innis Donald Creighton
Harold Innis Marshall McLuhan
“The Idea File” some excerpts Harold Innis
Table of Contents of Explorations 26 - Xmas 1969
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
Table of Contents of Explorations 27 - Spring 1970
Icarus Lost R. J. Schoek
The University and the City Marshall McLuhan
Table of Contents of Explorations 28 - Summer 1970
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 prisoner 20 New Explorations: Studies in Culture & Communication
Table of Contents of Explorations 29 - Xmas 1970
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
Table of Contents of Explorations 30 - Spring 1971
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, in the Age of Spaceships Marshall McLuhan Links and Tables of Contents for Explorations
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
Table of Contents of Explorations 32 - Spring 1972
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 22 New Explorations: Studies in Culture & Communication
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