As of Thursday, July 21, 2026

In celebration of Marshall McLuhan's 115 birthday.
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“To give both sides tends to ignore the possibility that there may be more sides than two.”
MMM Promo
Open and Freely Available • July 21, 2026

Thirty-nine years in the making.

The McLuhan Marshalling Machine

The McLuhan Marshalling Machine (MMM) is a searchable public archive of Marshall McLuhan's books, letters, articles, lectures and interviews, assembled over nearly four decades and now freely available through the official website of the McLuhan Estate.

7,534Quotes
246Chapters
100%Attributed
FullySearchable

Books • Letters • Articles • Lectures • Interviews

Visit the McLuhan Marshalling Machine →

What McLuhan scholars have said of the MMM

“The ultimate resource.”

Tom Cooper
Wisdom Weavers: The Lives and Thought of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan

“Kinesthetic learning on overdrive.”

Marshall Soules
Play Attention

“A continuous and cascading probe into the McLuhan Mosaic Mind.”

Andrey Mir
The Digital Reversal

“The McLuhan archival work and treasury we've been waiting for.”

B.W. Powe
Mysteria

“A masterwork every bit as useful as anticipated.”

Elaine Kahn
Been Hoping We Might Meet Again: Letters of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Marshall McLuhan
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“Globes make my head spin. By the time I’ve located the place, they’ve changed the boundaries.”

As of Friday, May 2, 2025

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Newly published in New Explorations, vol 5 no 1

“Can AI Reinvent Communication?” (essay)
https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/nexj/article/view/45281/33854
 
“After America” (poem)
https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/nexj/article/view/45300/33866
 
“To Surmount Rushmore” (poem)
https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/nexj/article/view/45301/33867
 
“Why Overabundant Communication Backfires, a Review of Nicholas Carr’s Superbloom” 
https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/nexj/article/view/45307/33873
 
“The 21st Century’s Most Important Origin Story, a Review of Tom Cooper’s Wisdom Weavers: the Lives and Thought of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan
https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/nexj/article/view/45306
 
“McLuhan Up Close and Personal: a Review of Chase Joynt’s Vantage Points: a Trans Media Memoir”
https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/nexj/article/view/45305

As of Sunday, November 24, 2024

To download and/or watch​, click on the titles and images for the redirect.

RETRIBALIZATION AT THE TIPPING POINT: REFLECTIONS ON TRUMP’S 2024 WIN
McLUHAN ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI): AN ANNOTATED GUESSEMBLY OF HIS PROBES
Kuhns, B. (2024). McLUHAN ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI): AN ANNOTATED GUESSEMBLY OF HIS PROBES. New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, 4(1). Retrieved from https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/nexj/article/view/43265
BLADE RUNNER: FANTASY OR FORECAST?
Drivers and Upshots of Robots Becoming Identical, Enhanced Replications of Us
MARSHALL McLUHAN: AN ANTHOLOGY CONCORDANCE / CATALOG OF HIS REPRINTED ESSAYS
THE FOURTH BRAIN: MARSHALL MCLUHAN’S FORECASTS OF A.I.
MIR-RORING McLUHAN'S THOUGHT IN THE DIGITAL ERA: HOW ANDREY MIR ADAPTS AND ADDRESSES MARSHALL MCLUHAN'S THOUGHT TO THE AGE OF MAGA AND DIVISIVE MEDIA
Kuhns, W. (2024). MIR-RORING McLUHAN IN THE DIGITAL ERA: HOW ANDREY MIR ADAPTS AND ADDRESSES MARSHALL McLUHAN’S THOUGHT TO THE AGE OF MAGA AND DIVISIVE MEDIA. New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, 4(1). Retrieved from https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/nexj/article/view/43304
PASSAGES FROM THE REVIEWS OF MCLUHAN’S BOOKS: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
with Robert Sparrow-Downes
A LEGENDARY WORK APPEARS IN PRINT: A REVIEW OF H.A. INNIS’S HISTORY OF COMMUNICATION ​
NEW INTERVIEWS ON VIDEO
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Another round with Gerry Fialka, "I'm Probably Wrong About Everything."

Taped 7-21-26

ABOUT ME

William Kuhns has published 18 books of nonfiction and fiction. His nonfiction accents themes of media and technology. His novels are thrillers, his short stories fantasies. Kuhns is an energetic walker, a voracious reader, a consummate haunter of used bookstores, and an avid pool player. He confesses to addictions: sharp movies; well-written streaming TV series; donuts; pretzels; and his partner Bev’s homemade chicken soup.

​For more see the biography page.​