Cameron McEwen's 2022 essay at his McLuhan New Sciences blog, which Bob recommends to listeners and credits himself with sparking by pointing to the last page (190) of War and Peace in the Global Village — McLuhan's "connubium of a superterrestrial kind." In the essay and across these sessions the connubium becomes Cameron's name for the plurality of possibilities within being — the "villagers" of the eleven, each gapped from the next — "the global village of being." New to it — start with dialogue 46, where Bob recommends it and Cameron folds a fresh Take Today quote into it live.
Across the dialogues
Recommended to listeners and extended live — the connubium of being as "the global village of being," with Bob's Take Today page-294 "extension of the planet" quote footnoted into it
Bob names and recommends the essay — Cameron's post at McLuhan New Sciences, reachable by Googling "McLuhan Sciences" — which he credits himself with sparking by pointing to p.190 of War and Peace.
"Cameron's recent essay called The Connubium of Being."
The essay's core — the plurality of possibilities within being (figured by the gapped "villagers" of the eleven) is the connubium of being, "the global village of being."
"and that is the connubium of being, the global village of being."
The essay treated as a living document — Cameron will footnote Bob's Take Today page-294 "extension of the planet" quote into it, tying it to the War and Peace connubium passage.
"I'm going to take this quote and put it into a footnote in The Connubium of Being post"
Lifted from a named essay into the session's master term — the connubium as the cosmic in-formation the Gutenberg Galaxy occludes, what McLuhan's "light through" is trying to reach
The essay's title concept promoted to the episode's master term — reading McLuhan's "book of the world becomes an Orphic hymn of revelation," Cameron makes the connubium the cosmic in-formation the Gutenberg Galaxy occludes, the thing McLuhan's "light through" is straining to reach.
"and the cosmic information is the Connubium."
Connections
Cameron's blog post at McLuhan New Sciences, which Bob credits himself with sparking.
The essay springs from page 190's "connubium of a superterrestrial kind."