Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “Marshall McLuhan, what are you doin’?” When the poet-laureate of “Laugh-In,” Henry Gibson, asked that question in 1968, he concisely articulated what many ...
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One of my favorite YouTube videos is a clip from a Canadian television show in 1968 featuring a debate between Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan. The two men, both heroes of the ’60s, could hardly be ...
There should have been conferences and lectures, seminars and symposiums. Discussion and debate should have reverberated through print and television; the Internet should have been frantic with ...
Marshall McLuhan was fascinated by how we consume and share ideas and information and what impact that has on society. How we get our information and what form it comes in, according to McLuhan, is ...
Marshall McLuhan, who, as just about everybody-ought to know by now, is the Canadian agricultural expert and author of “The Romance of Wheat”— No. I am mistaken. Marshall McLuhan, who, as just about ...