Harley Parker Author

Harley Parker (1915-1992) was a Canadian typographer, painter, and museum exhibition designer. He was media thinker Marshall McLuhan’s friend, collaborator, and right-hand man, and was popularly known in the local Toronto press as the “McLuhan of the museum.” Parker was Head of General Display at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum from 1957 to 1968. Gary Genosko is Professor of Communication and Digital Media Studies at Ontario Tech University. He has published extensively on Continental thought, communication modelling, administrative surveillance, critical semiotics, and the lives of scholarly journals. His books include McLuhan and Baudrillard: The Masters of Implosion, When Technocultures Collide, and Harley Parker: The McLuhan of the Museum (with University of Alberta Press).