Marshall McLuhan

-------------------- Where the Heart Beats John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists Kay Larson Penguin: 477 pp., $29.95 -------------------- In the late 1940s and early 1950s, composer John Cage underwent related crises in his...

Rita Leistner is a politically and socially engaged lens-based artist whose concerned photography uses conceptual approaches to create photographs with a special relationship to current events and the human condition. Her work has been exhibited widely...

 Anthony Wachs, an speech instructor at Northern State University, received the Wilhelm S. Wurzer Scholarship award from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.  The award is from Dusquesne's department of communicationand rhetorical studies. Wachs, who...

Sixty two years ago, George Orwell wrote the novel, 1984. He described a society controlled by government where the individual had no privacy, no real freedom, and was literally put into the equivalent of a drug induced state by the pabulum of mass...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Betty Ford said things that first ladies just don't say, even today. And 1970s America loved her for it. According to Mrs. Ford, her young adult children probably had smoked marijuana — and if she were their age, she'd...

I refuse to get on the anti-Facebook bandwagon. For the last five years or so, Facebook has been the biggest thing on the Web. But some disillusionment was inevitable. Nothing can be the biggest thing forever. In recent months, there's been a rising...

Leah Ollman reviews experimental films by Kurt Ralske and digital projections by John Carpenter at YoungProjects...

U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said his government is considering blocking social networks and messaging services such as RIM's BlackBerry, saying the services are encouraging the worst riots since the 1980s....

He's in the “Twilight” movies, stole his scenes in “TRON” and memorably played Tony Blair a couple of times — in “The Deal,” “The Queen” and “The Special Relationship.” Michael Sheen has...

Studies suggest that consuming short blasts of information has led to Web-induced attention deficit, making today's youth more impulsive and impatient and far less likely to log off long enough to leap into the pages of a good book. So......

The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Steve Martin Pt. 2 www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog March to Keep Fear Alive Steve Martin learned the hard way last week that live audiences don't......

A week before classical music’s latest celebrity sensation, Gustavo Dudamel, filled the Hollywood Bowl for a performance of Bizet’s “Carmen� last summer, Princeton University Press published Fred Inglis’ “A Short History of Celebrity.�...