McLuhanist

comparative more McLuhanist · superlative most McLuhanist

1. Of or relating to McLuhanism; informed by the ideas of Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan.

   Marie Winn has succeeded in moving the conversation forward. It is refreshing to step off the forensic merry-go-round to take a fresh look at the landscape from a McLuhanist perspective.

   1977 March 26, Richard A. Blake, “Forget the Message, Worry About the Medium”, in America Magazine: The Jesuit Review of Faith & Culture, volume 136, number 22, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 276

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   In a "McLuhanist interpretation," he [Ron Silliman] points to a variety of social phenomena from the method of speed reading to the progressive standardization of expository writing to the "apotheosis of language activity repressed—the mass market novel."

   1987 April 29, Patricia Pace, “Language Poetry: The Radical Writing Project”, in Literature in Performance, volume 7, number 2, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, page 24

   The novella avoids depth – in much the same way as most TV programming does – by following sit-com ’rules’ and employing superficial novelty, instead of following up in any thoughtful way the McLuhanist ramifications it artistically introduces.

   1996 December 29, T.L. Craig, “Fiction”, in Letters in Canada, volume 66, number 1, University of Toronto Publishing, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 224

   In order to really understand the full scope of this we do need to dig a bit more into the technical aspects, because that technical functionality informs the way the rest of the system behaves. In a very McLuhanist way, the machine shapes the environment around it.

   2022 January 21, Folding Ideas [pseudonym; Dan Olson], 24:40 from the start, in Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs, via YouTube, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2024

   Synonyms: McLuhanian

plural McLuhanists

1. Adherent of or believer in McLuhanism; one who follows the ideas of Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan.

   A group of members of the congress from North America, which lay geographically between the East and West, sought to unify the views of the Teutons, the Middle Easterners, and their native McLuhanists.

   1975 July 29, Siarl Tyno, “The Schlichtmeier Gap: A Report Based on Recent Archeological Findings”, in Journal of the American Society for Information Science, volume 26, number 4, Wiley, →DOI, →ISSN, page 260

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   At its core, rock video is the kind of cultural shotgun wedding that delights the heart of any aging McLuhanist: rock, radio, movies, music, video, new technologies and new marketing tilting the popular culture onto an angle so it can, if so ordained, slip off onto a whole new course.

   1983 December 26, Jay Cocks, “Sing a Song of Seeing”, in Time Magazine, volume 122, number 27, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 56

   Neo-liberals could integrate a lot of theorists into their doctrine, which upon serious examination would not stand. For example, Lyotard, Deleuze and McLuhan are not neo-liberals. But Deleuzians or McLuhanists could certainly be neo-liberals.

   2024 December 29, Nikola Mlađenović, “Knowledge, neo-liberalism and mediatization: The crystal of Wikipedia”, in Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, volume 15, number 1/2, Intellect Books, →DOI, →ISSN, page 88

   Synonyms: McLuhanite