Teri c mcluhan biography for kids
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Film maker T.C. McLuhan finishes documentary 20 years later
Between a government screening in Afghanistan where a crowd of people two miles long gathered outside the theatre, a sold out show at the Lincoln Centre in New York and an upcoming special-event screening at the United Nations for 183 diplomats at the request of the Indian and Afghanistan ambassadors, last Thursday filmskapare T.C. (Teri) McLuhan found some time to visit Laurier for a screening of her documentary The Frontier Gandhi: Badshah Khan, a Torch for Peace.
The film, which took the Canadian director and daughter of theorist Marshall McLuhan 20 years to create, is now on the screening circuit, having won the prestigious best feature documentary award at the Middle East International Film Festival in Abu Dhabi this past October.
“I always imagined the completion of it,” said McLuhan to The Cord in an interview after the screening. “Each day in my head I imagined I was completing it; that’s what kept me going,” she
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Way of the Earth
What is it that binds us (ligat) together as Beings? Further, what binds us together with the Earth around us, about us, and within us? This book attempts to celebrate, and explore, the common threads that connect us, as Beings, throughout known history. Through patterns discoverable in various cultures of the Earth, a common experience of being rooted in the natural world reveals itself. T.C. McLuhan invites us on this journey that constitutes a cross-cultural mapping of the human psyche. Using quotes, from antiquity through modernity, the deep currents of energy existent among the varied cultures are explored and revealed.
This book offers an intriguing way to consider modern day philosophical – and dare I säga – political issues such as, race relations, property ownership/stewardship of the land, etc. On numerous occasions, you are confronted with ideas of modernity that are incoherent with the integrity necessary to maintain and inhabit the E
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Electric speeds create centers everywhere
In 1938 Bernard Muller-Thym returned to St Louis University, where he had obtained his MA in 1933. In the meantime he and his growing family of eventually eight children had been in Toronto where Muller-Thym received his licentiate from the IMS and his PhD from the university. At SLU, he taught in the philosophy department and immediately began publishing a whole series of important papers.
Muller-Thym and McLuhan quickly became very close friends — Muller-Thym was the best man in the McLuhans’ 1939 marriage ceremony and the Godfather to two of their first three children, Eric (b 1942) and Mary (b 1944 with twin Teri).
In Toronto Muller-Thym had been a favorite of Etienne Gilson. Both were family men in a sea of single priests and seminarians at St Michael’s. Both loved music — in fact Muller-Thym and his wife, Mary, the daughter of the conductor of the Kansas City symphony, were very accomplished musicians who pe