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Explorations 3
12018-08-30T21:28:03-07:00Emma Allainaf81bfdcf8d535972cadaf567952dcafd4b4d57c244603plain2018-09-17T19:17:40-07:00Emma Allainaf81bfdcf8d535972cadaf567952dcafd4b4d57cEXPLORATIONS 3 was initially planned as a volume dedicated to Harold Innis. In the end, the issue would only include Innis’s essay “Monopoly and Civilization,” introduced by Easterbrook, and a series of reflections in “Innis and Communication” by seminar participants. In November 1954, the Explorations researchers attended the “Institute on Culture and Communication” organised by Ray Birdwhistell at the University of Louisville’s Interdisciplinary Committee on Culture and Communication. A number of the contributions to Explorations 3 are essays or early drafts of contributions related to this conference (Birdwhistell, Lee, Trager & Hall). The issue also includes the initial, and substantially divergent, assessments of the group’s first “media experiment” at CBC studios (April 1954) in the contributions by Carpenter and Williams. The issue is rounded out with an excerpt on reading and writing (Chaytor), a new translation of Kamo Chomei’s Hojoki (Rowe & Kerrigan), a study of utopias (Wolfenstein), a reading of Tristram Shandy (MacLean), reflections on Soviet ethnography (Potekin & Levin), a reading of Shelley’s hallucinations as narcissism and doublegoing (McCullough), a critical reassessment of the science of human behaviour (Wallace), and “Meat Packing and Processing,” an anonymous entry, likely by McLuhan, alluding to Giedion’s Mechanization Takes Command (1948). Like Explorations 1, the cover depicted an indigenous mask viii from the Northwest Coast also represented in the Crawley film The Loon’s Necklace (1948).
