The economist and political figure Bob places at the base of the Tiny Note Chart as its earliest of four studied figures (with McLuhan, William Irwin Thompson, and Kroker, plus Bob as integrator). LaRouche stands for the 19th-century, technological register of the chart's history of media, and is mapped to the "magnetic/technological" part of the MIHR device. New to it — start with dialogue 12, where Bob first lays out the chart's structure.
Across the dialogues
Enters as the earliest of the Tiny Note Chart's four figures — the technological-economics level
Bob reads LaRouche as a Marxist who re-grounded Marxism on technology, "a semi-McLuhan understanding," yielding a new economics.
"LaRouche is... a Marxist. That's what he was. And then he updated Marxism with a semi-McLuhan understanding of technology as the ground. So he made a very interesting new kind of economics."
On the chart LaRouche is the 19th-century figure, crystallized at 1960.
"So if you look on the chart, he represents 1840 to 1900. And it's crystallized as 1947 to 57, focused on 1960."
In the MIHR-parts mapping, LaRouche is the magnetic/electrical (technological) component.
"LaRouche was technology. So he was the magnetic electrical magnetic part."
LaRouche's analog-era "vortex" is Ezra Pound — the ground he is an afterimage of.
"LaRouche Burroughs Ezra Pound."
Diagnosed by hemisphere — the Christian technologist re-read as a "left hemisphere engineer" stuck in efficient causality, right in his aim and wrong in his brain
Bob's diagnosis by hemisphere — LaRouche's Christian philosophy of technology is right in aim but built by a "left hemisphere engineer" who "didn't like intuition" and stayed with efficient causality, so he watched the world go "dumber" without McLuhan's reasons.
"he was a left hemisphere engineer."
Connections
The chart's first (earliest) figure — the 19th-century, technological-economics level, crystallized 1960.
In the chart's "vortices," LaRouche is the afterimage whose analog-era ground is Pound.
The opposite pole in the same figure — LaRouche's "technological liberalism" against McLuhan's Thomism.