McLuhan

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1. McLuhan - Noun

2. McLuhan - Proper noun

Meaning

Canadian writer noted for his analyses of the mass media (1911-1980)

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McLuhan after his September 1979 stroke. Brand, Stewart. "McLuhan's last words." New Scientist, 29 Jan 1981. Marshall McLuhan

Andy Warhol was paraphrasing McLuhan with his now famous 15 minutes of fame quote. Source: Internet

And this flexibility of androids (what McLuhan calls robotism) has a strong affinity with Japanese culture and life. Source: Internet

A movie is thus said by McLuhan to be "hot", intensifying one single sense "high definition", demanding a viewer's attention, and a comic book to be "cool" and "low definition", requiring much more conscious participation by the reader to extract value. Source: Internet

Allen's Oscar-winning motion picture Annie Hall (1977) had McLuhan in a cameo as himself: a pompous academic arguing with Allen in a cinema queue is silenced by McLuhan suddenly appearing and saying, "You know nothing of my work." Source: Internet

At Manitoba, McLuhan explored his conflicted relationship with religion and turned to literature to "gratify his soul's hunger for truth and beauty," Marchand (1998), p. 20. Edan, Tina (2003). Source: Internet

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