EXPLORATIONS 2’s mischievous spoof covers, both front and back, inside and outside, were labelled “Feenicht’s Playhouse,” a reference to the Phoenix playhouse of Joyce’s Wake. The key playful headline, “New Media Changing Temporal and Spatial Orientation to Self,” was accompanied by multiple hoax articles, including “Time-Space Duality Goes” and “TV Wollops MS,” a reference to television’s apparent power over manuscript culture as evidenced by the group’s media experiment at CBC studios. Exemplifying the playfulness of the core faculty’s discussions about new media and behaviour, it is not surprising the McLuhan would publish in this issue his now famous article “Notes on the Media as Art Forms” alongside essays by other seminar participants: Tyrwhitt resuscitated an unpublished article, “Ideal Cities and the City Ideal,” a historical survey of proposals for ideal urban designs (originally drafted for the defunct journal trans/formation: art, communication, environment). Carpenter’s “Eternal Life” is a first analysis of Aivilik Inuit concepts of time; then student Donald Theall’s “Here Comes Everybody” offered a snapshot of his research on Joyce and communication theories in modern poetry; anthropologist Dorothy Lee, who would visit the seminar in March 1955, offered a review of David Bidney’s challenge to scholarly traditions in his 1953 book Theoretical Anthropology. In addition, Carpenter fleshed out the contents with contributions from political economy, anthropology, psychology, and English: the second part of Riesman’s Veblen study; Lord Raglan on social classes; Derek Savage on “Jung, Alchemy and Self”; the New Yorker’s Stanley Hyman on Malraux’s thesis of the “museum without walls”; and A. Irving Hallowell’s extended essay on “Self and its Behavioral Environment”—the inspiration for the spoof cover.