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McLuhanism

proper noun

  1. any concept deriving from, and/or in the style of, Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian academic who enjoyed international cult status as a media guru in the 1960s
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From McLuhan + -ism.

  1. The social ideas of Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980).

    “A basic primer on McLuhanism is now becoming available free of charge to Peace Corps members. Understanding Media, one of McLuhan’s more popular books, is contained in the new booklockers being distributed around the Peace Corps village.”

    “Finally, McLuhanism is ambiguous on the post-modern ‘reversal’ in which reality is construed as a textual, symbolic and absent construction rather than the immediate existence and ‘givenness’ to experience that common sense and empiricism assume is foundational, even if open to debate.”