McLuhan correspondent and early student who, Bob says, may have "the greatest correspondence with McLuhan in the archives" and helped edit The Gutenberg Galaxy as a student in the early 1960s — later a listener of the Chicago investigative broadcaster Sherman Skolnick.
Across the dialogues
The great correspondent — editor of the Gutenberg Galaxy, and a thread to Chicago's conspiracy radio
Keogh was among McLuhan's most prolific correspondents and helped edit The Gutenberg Galaxy as a student in the early 1960s.
"Joe Keogh has maybe the greatest correspondence with McLuhan in the archives. He was an incredible correspondent, and he helped edit the Gutenberg Galaxy as a student in the early '60s."
Keogh followed the Chicago investigative broadcaster Sherman Skolnick — a thread Bob ties into his own milieu.
"Joe knew and used to listen to Sherman Skolnick in the Chicago area in the late '60s, early '70s. Skolnick always ended his program with: 'It's been a real pleasure to hear the treasure of your wisdom.'"
Fleshed out from correspondent into a full portrait — the largest McLuhan correspondence, the Idler essays and the Acadia post, and the motto Bob keeps quoting back, "I don't repeat myself"
Bob makes Keogh's offhand line in the car his emblem — a refusal of "conceptual replay" Bob reads as pure McLuhanite percept, "forever living in the present," and a motto he admits he has borrowed ever since.
"I don't repeat myself."
Connections
One of McLuhan's greatest correspondents in the archives; helped edit The Gutenberg Galaxy as a student.