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	Gutenberg Galaxy
		The Gutenberg Galaxy, named for Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of printing, is the universe of all printed books ever published.
		The term was first used by Marshall McLuhan in his book The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man first published in 1962.
		As an estimate of the size of the Gutenberg Galaxy, the British Library claims that it holds over 150 million items.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gu/Gutenberg_Galaxy.html (76 words)

	Pictures and Stories: Reflections On the Gutenberg Galaxy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mentioning the Gutenberg Bible amongst graphic designers, including typographers, typesetters and printers, required a gesture of recognition: a simple nod of the eyes, a slight utterance of the mouth or any subtle genuflection of the facial muscles.
		Spanning ages, it is a galaxy exceeding the boundaries of our terrestrial thinking; protruding into the ever-spatial flux of the literary universe, composed of other innumerable bodies of visible thoughts orbiting a common galactic center that we all share.
		The metaphor of a galaxy is a poetic and appropriate model.
	www.picturesandstories.org /gutenberggalaxy.html (1623 words)

	Gutenberg - Museum Mainz - Weltmuseum der Druckkunst
		The Gutenberg Museum was originally laid out in two rooms at the Kurfürstliches Schloß in Mainz, which also accommodated the city library.
		of Gutenberg’s printing press, rebuilt according 15th- and 16th-century woodcuts, proved an object of great interest to visitors and was henceforth shown at a large number of exhibitions all over the world.
		A century after its founding, on the 600th anniversary of Gutenberg´s birth the old museum building was restored and extended with the help of the state Rhineland-Palatinate, the city of Mainz, the Gutenberg Sponsorship Association (Förderverein Gutenberg) and numerous private companies and citizens of Mainz.
	www.gutenberg-museum.de /?language=e (573 words)

	Gutenberg Galaxy
		Marshall McLuhan wrote a good deal about the "Gutenberg Galaxy" - the 'constellation' of changes wrought on European society after the German of that name figured out how to turn a winepress into a holder for movable type - in other words, a printing press - in the 15th century.
		But what if there were a hidden center to the "Gutenberg Galaxy?" As we are entering our post-print, post-literate, hyper-textual era, we might do well to reflect on whether there were groups who were interested in introducing the technologies we seem to be abandoning.
		If we open ourselves to considering the possibility that a group of initiates might have been "behind the scenes" and "stage-managing" the motions of the "Gutenberg Galaxy," we might also consider that possibility for the constellation of technological changes we see which are trying to send that galaxy spinning away.
	www.fiu.edu /~mizrachs/Gutenberg_Galaxy.html (2250 words)

	Media : McLuhan/GutenbergGalaxy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As an estimate of the size of the Gutenberg Galaxy, as of 2002/2003, the British Library claimed that it held over 150 million items, and the Library of Congress claimed that it held approximately 119 million items.
		First published in 1962, Marshall McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy studies the emergence of what its author calls Gutenberg Man, the subject produced by the change of consciousness wrought by the advent of the printed book.
		McLuhan divides history in four epochs: the oral tribe culture, the manuscript culture, the Gutenberg galaxy and the electronic age.
	deoxy.org /media/McLuhan/GutenbergGalaxy (837 words)

	Bach Cello Suite #1 G maj (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Thirty-five years after the publication of The Gutenberg Galaxy we are still in a moment of interplay of contrasting cultures but I think we are now more in the same moment as Bach.
		Thus the galaxy or constellation of events upon which the present study concentrates is itself a mosaic of perpetually interacting forms that have undergone kaleidoscopic transformation -- particularly in our own time.
		We, too, live at such a moment of interplay of contrasted cultures and The Gutenberg galaxy is intended to trace the ways in which the forms of experience and of mental outlook and expression have been modified, first by the phonetic alphabet and then by printing.
	home.earthlink.net /~unisons/es00003.htm (816 words)

	Yankee Wombat \| An American in Oz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I am thinking in particular of his Gutenberg Galaxy which traces the impact of the invention of printing - or more properly movable type - on the Western mind.
		McLuhan’s broader argument in the Gutenberg Galaxy is that the invention of movable type drove the explosive development of western thought.
		Gutenberg’s inventions are sometimes considered the turning point from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period.
	www.yankeewombat.com /?p=191 (1183 words)

	Johan Gutenberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gutenberg helped to allow more people to write down their numerous ideas in a much shorter span.
		Writers of today say, "What Gutenberg unleashed more than 500 years ago, is happening once more with the explosion of the Internet." People are now looking beyond books and into the broad galaxy of the Internet.
		Johan Gutenberg is hailed in, "helping spread truth, beauty and, yes, heresy throughout the world".
	www.urbana.k12.oh.us /Class00/MT00/RS/johan_gutenberg.htm (378 words)

	600 Years Since The Birth Of Gutenberg - Inventor The Printing Press
		Although Gutenberg and Fust belonged to the same new-merchant class, Gutenberg was driven by the spirit of innovation (most probably with the intention of earning more money) and this was sufficient to cause friction between the two.
		Gutenberg sought to defend himself in the courts, lost the case and was forced to give up the print shop, including his invention, to Fust.
		Gutenberg's Bible was also known as the 42-line Bible, referring to the number of lines on each page of the printed book.
	www.rense.com /general6/guten.htm (2836 words)

	Free Essay Johann Gutenberg and the Invention of the Printing Press
		This 8 page paper considers McLuhan’s central thesis in the Gutenberg Galaxy and discusses whether it is relevant to the current revolution in electroni...
		Johann Gutenberg, thought to be the father of modern printing, lived from about 1400 to 1467, where he died at Mainz.
		Gutenberg’s invention should be classed with the greatest events in the history of the world.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=31410 (835 words)

	The Gutenberg Galaxy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		McLuhan studies the emergence of what he calls Gutenberg Man, the subject produced by the change of consciousness wrought by the advent of the printed book.
		It is possible to estimate a hypothetical size of the Gutenberg Galaxy.
		Ignoring duplicate holdings (probably high, in the order of 25–50%), the combined size of the Gutenberg Galaxy by this method would be around 0.25 Petabytes, or around 1,000 hard disks of 250 Gigabytes each.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gutenberg_Galaxy (458 words)

	5.02: electrosphere
		Hart is an e-text visionary and cofounder of Project Gutenberg, whose aim is to put copies of the world's greatest books on the Net for free.
		One result is that Gutenberg texts reach people who have no idea what an FTP server is, let alone how to use one.
		In recent months, complaints about Gutenberg's use of over-taxed U of I computing resources led to an ultimatum from school officials: find a formal university sponsor or get off.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/5.02/esgutenberg_pr.html (4101 words)

	Printing Press Perfected, Bible Printed
		Gutenberg created up to three hundred different stamps out of metal, each with different letters or combinations of letters and used a system of bars and rods to hold all the stamps in place while he imprinted them onto paper.
		Gutenberg however was not on hand to comment on this triumph of invention.
		With Gutenbergs invention, if a mistake is made, the offending letter is simply pulled out and replaced with the correct one.
	www.dailypast.com /technology/first-printing-press.shtml (848 words)

	Marshall McLuhan : Understanding the Media
		It is sui generis, as is his 1962 book The Gutenberg Galaxy, in which McLuhan carries forward his use of short essays that can be read in any order -- an approach that he styles a mosaic approach to writing a book.
		McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (written in 1961, first published in Canada by University of Toronto Press in 1962) is a pioneering study of print culture, a pioneering study in cultural studies, and a pioneering study in media ecology.
		However, in the 1967 New Catholic Encyclopedia, Ong subsequently qualified his earlier praise by characterizing McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy as "a racy survey, indifferent to some scholarly detail, but uniquely valuable in suggesting the sweep and depth of the cultural and psychological changes entailed in the passage from illiteracy to print and beyond" (8: 838).
	www.ideashappen.org /marshall-mcluhan.html (3107 words)

	Free Essay The Andromeda Galaxy
		The Andromeda galaxy is the closest full size galaxy to the Milky Way because of this it is known as our nearest galactic neighbor.
		The Andromeda Galaxy is also the only galaxy visible to the naked eye in the Northern Hemisphere.
		This galaxy is set among the stars of the constellation of Andromeda, the tiny misty blur that astronomers know by the catalog number M 31 is easy to miss.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=130 (800 words)

	Technology and Interpretation: A Footnote to McLuhan
		The "Gutenberg Galaxy" consisted of the complex social, intellectual, cultural and, indeed, even spiritual changes that accompanied the introduction of printing in western culture.
		The "Gutenberg Galaxy" was not produced by print.
		Gutenberg transferred the sacred text from the illuminated manuscript to the objective, and duplicable, printed page.
	www.religion-research.org /irtc/martin.htm (3946 words)

	Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Canadian academic whose work about the impact of the mass media on human consciousness (The Gutenberg Galaxy 1962), the social effects of the motor car (The Mechanical Bride 1951), electronic communications and the 'global village', were extremely influential in the arts of the 1950s and 1960s.
		The phrase "global village" was coined by McLuhan in 1959, and appears in 1962's The Gutenberg Galaxy, his study of the psychological and cognitive effects of standardised printing.
		Marshall McLuhan was born in 1911 and died in 1980.
	www.jahsonic.com /MarshallMcLuhan.html (2122 words)

	The Textbook of History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Gutenberg Bible (or Mazarin Bible) of 42 lines per page was actually published by Fust to whom Gutenberg had surrendered his press and prepared plates, because of bankruptcy.
		Gutenberg himself published a 36-line Bible known by a number of names (Bamberg Bible, Schelhorn’s Bible or Pfister’s Bible), apparently in the same year.
		[42] Gutenberg went bankrupt at least twice while attempting to introduce this technology, and printers suffered at times the confiscation of their equipment at the hands of an unsupportive Church.
	www.reformed.com /pub/cyber2.htm (2597 words)

	CiteULike: The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In <I>The Gutenberg Galaxy</I>, University of Toronto theorist Marshall McLuhan described the shift from an oral to a print culture and in the process set off a bit of a revolution of his own.
		In The Gutenberg Galaxy, University of Toronto theorist Marshall McLuhan described the shift from an oral to a print culture and in the process set off a bit of a revolution of his own.
		That is the basic premise of Marshall McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy.
	www.citeulike.org /user/spinster/article/197321 (511 words)

	The Gutenberg Galaxy - Alison Harwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Gutenberg Galaxy is not the intrinsic evil of technology, but that “…unconsciousness of any force is a disaster, especially one we have made ourselves.”
		The Gutenberg Galaxy is enlightening, provocative and stimulating.
		One is left with the realisation that the book’s effectiveness is strangely at odds with its unfamiliar “mosaic” style; that perhaps uneasiness engendered by its seemingly fractured approach and lack of rational, structured argument is subliminal proof of one’s own unconsciously sculptured perception.
	users.bigpond.net.au /marshan/book5.htm (1503 words)

	Six hundred years since the birth of Johannes Gutenberg--inventor of the printing press
		The technical revolution inaugurated by Gutenberg involved the development of reusable movable type—the basic principle of which survived well into the twentieth century.
		Gutenberg's life spanned much of the fifteenth century—a period bridging the end of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, an era of profound social transformation.
		At the turn of the nineteenth century the outstanding German poet Fredrich Schiller wrote: “It is remarkable what a huge role the art of printing and publicity as a whole played in the rebellion in the Netherlands.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/jan2001/gute-j03.shtml (2811 words)

	NIGELBEALE.COM NOTA BENE BOOKS » Blog Archive » Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Gadfly. Book Review by ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Plato is quoted as saying that the onset of literacy diminished ontological awareness, resulting in an impoverishment of being and a loss of richness in experience.
		The stated purpose of The Gutenberg Galaxy is to discover how far the restrictive visual bias was pushed by introduction of the alphabet, then manuscripts then typography.
		McLuhanâ€™s objective in The Gutenberg Galaxy is to show the process by which forms of experience, mental outlook and expression have been modified, first by phonetics, then by printing.
	nigelbeale.com /?p=139 (1292 words)

	Book review: The Gutenberg Elegies by Sven Birkerts
		Like the wheel or the lever it is a technology that is so everpresent in our lives that it is almost always transparent, forever seeming to collapse into that which it mediates -- spoken language.
		The Gutenberg Elegies is a argument against forms of communication that mediate our relationship to the written word.
		As a celebration of reading Gutenberg Elegies is an excellent book, staking out the vital place of reading in our culture.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /jod/texts/birkerts.review.html (1682 words)

	Marshall McLuhan and The Gutenberg Galaxy
		This not only resulted in the commodification of literature but the simultaneous emergence of the "author" and the "public." "Manuscript technology," he writes, "did not have the intensity or power of extension to create publics on a national scale.
		What we call 'nations' did not and could not precede the advent of Gutenberg technology any more than they can survive the advent of electric circuitry with its power of totally involving all people in other people" (ix).
		For McLuhan the coming of the electronic age will precipitate a return to the tribalism and pleasure in diversity that collapsed in the age of movable type.
	www3.iath.virginia.edu /elab/hfl0232.html (425 words)

	The Gutenberg Galaxy and the Readers Education.
		In this paper I am doing a reflection on the limits of the literacy concept, the meaning of a media competence and the education of readers in the Gutenberg Galaxy.
		The utopia of The Gutenberg Galaxy (MacLuhan, 1969) has been trivialised to the extent of becoming one of the great dragons of the twentieth century: the death of reading at the hands of the global village.
		The appearance of the hypertext, together with the development of Internet, has, in part, given the final backing to the Gutenberg Galaxy and once again unleashed a veritable flood of apocalyptic prophecies about the future of reading and readers.
	ultibase.rmit.edu.au /Articles/nov02/blasco1.htm (4086 words)

	McLuhan, Marshall
		Until the publication of his best known and most popular works, The Gutenberg Galaxy: the Making of Typographic Man (1962) and Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man (1964), McLuhan lead a very ordinary academic life.
		However, he did not elaborate upon their historical origins until the publication of The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), which traces the social evolution of modern humanity from tribal society.
		Western Man evolved into "Gutenberg Man" with the arrival of the printing press in the 16th century.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/M/htmlM/mcluhanmars/mcluhanmars.htm (1429 words)

	Eco - "The Future of the Book"
		McLuhan, comparing a Manhattan discotheque to the Gutenberg Galaxy, said "Ceci tuera cela." One of the main concerns of this symposium has certainly been that ceci (the computer) tuera cela (the book).
		We are coming back to the Gutenberg Galaxy again, and I am sure that if McLuhan had survived until the Apple rush to the Silicon Valley, he would have acknowledged this portentous event.
		I have mentioned the first McLuhan fallacy, according to which the Visual Galaxy has replaced the Gutenberg Galaxy.
	www.themodernword.com /eco/eco_future_of_book.html (4419 words)

	An "Introduction to Writing Studies" Screen
		Critics of McLuhan think he oversimplifies theses characterizations of each era, and that he is deterministic (i.e., McLuhan argues that technologies automatically have certain effects and human agency cannot shape those effects).
		One of his arguments is that in a post-literate, electronic culture, catchy phrases, sound bites, and one-liners are more powerful than carefully elaborated statements backed by mounds and mounds of research.
		When he [Harold Innis, McLuhan’s mentor] interrelates the development of the steam press with “the consolidation of the vernaculars” and the rise of nationalism and revolution he is not reporting anybody’s point of view, least of all his own.
	www.ndsu.nodak.edu /ndsu/kbrooks/teaching/iws/guidetogg.html (1587 words)

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