New Stationary States: Real Time and History’s Disquiet

Literary humanities in the US came comparatively late and gradually to this hyperproduction party. But it's unquestionable that the late-blooming and sometimes necessarily "silent" work of cumulative human wisdom has been nothing less than thoroughly colonized, now, by the disjunctive form of the scientific breakthrough noisily achieved in relative youth, and that this has decisively transformed the critical climate in which people operate. Here, Lennon considers the tragedy of Marshall McLuhan, a writer and thinker he admires and takes seriously, against the grain of the dominant cultures of literary humanism and antihumanism even today.