Update:This is the classic funny clip that you probably have seen before “Woody Allen meets Marshall McLuhan“. Marshall McLuhan at 100: Media Expert Paul Levinson The bit aboutMcLuhancalling Levinson on the phone to talk for minutes, giving live commentary, about PresidentRichard Nixonbeinginte...
Marshall McLuhan was born in 1911 and died in 1980. By the time of his death, he had been dismissed by respectable academicians, and he was known in the popular press as an eccentric intellectual whose day in the media spotlight had come and gone. By 1980, the transformation of human ...
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