Footnotes

^{in Ottawa. Further references to the McLuhan Fonds will be identified as LAC}

^{followed by the call number MG 31, D 156, the volume number, and the folder}

^{number (here: LAC MG 31, D 156, 145, 35).}

^{2 Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964: 287.}

^{3 Edmund Carpenter, 1954, ‘Certain Media Biases,’ Explorations 3: 65-74;}

^{Edmund Carpenter and Marshall McLuhan, 1956, ‘The New Languages,’ Chicago}

^{Review 10 (1): 46–52; Edmund Carpenter, 1957, ‘The New Languages,’ Explorations}

^{7: 4-21. ‘Stress syndrome’ (Nature, 1936; Lancet, 1943).}

^{4 Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage, (New York and London: Penguin Books 1967, 26.}

^{5 Selye, Hans. 1953. ‘Stress,’ Explorations 1: 57-75.}

^{6 ‘Stress syndrome’ (Nature, 1936; Lancet, 1943).}

^{7 See Hans Selye, The Stress of Life, rev. ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976).}

^{8 Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964), 64.}

^{9 Ibid., 48.}

 ^{10
Catherine Malabou, ‘The Anthropocene: A New History’ (lecture, Durham
Castle Lecture Series, Durham University, England, January 27, 2016)}

^{‘Explorations as a container for a post-war experiment in thinking through media in the electric age’}