A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

You can be quite sure that if there are going to be McLuhanites, I am not going to be one of them. I know that anyone who learns anything will learn it slightly askew. I can imagine that having disciples would become a very great bother. It would disturb one’s freedom, privacy, work. If I just keep writing with great energy, no McLuhanite will ever be able to digest it all. My areas of probing, of exploring are very personal. But of course my work might produce considerable consequences for other people. Most of what I have to say is second hand, gathered however from esoteric sources. My favorite
“The Hot and Cool Interview with Gerald Stearn, in McLuhan: Hot & Cool: A Primer For The Understanding Of & A Critical Symposium With A Rebuttal By McLuhan ,(1967), p 291 , reprinted in Marshall McLuhan Essays Media Research : Technology Art Communication, (1997), p 77
Year: 1967
Compiled by William Kuhns
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