William J. Buxton is Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. Author of  numerous articles on intellectual and cultural history as well as the sociology of knowledge he has most recently edited and co-edited four collections entitled Harold Innis and the North: Appraisals and Contestations; Harold Innis’s History of Communications: Paper and Printing from Antiquity to Early Modernity; Harold Innis Reflects: Memoir, World-War I Writings and Correspondence and Harold Innis on Peter Pond: Biography, Cultural Memory, and the Continental Fur Trade. He has edited and written an introduction to the 3rd University of Toronto edition of Harold Innis’s seminal text Empire and Communications. It will be published in the spring of 2022. More generally, has been awarded a research grant from the Insight Program of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to write a history of the Toronto School of Communication, with specific reference to the contributions of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan. To this end, he is now examining in detail the writings of McLuhan. Particular attention is given to the extent to which his views on the senses were rooted in his broader intellectual and cultural concerns.