Q:  You don’t think that there are any 
contemporary masters of the area that he was 
talking about?

A:  No, not a one. The lines of force, if you will, in 
the field were laid down many years ago and have 
stayed pretty much what they were. McLuhan is 
very definitely a renegade, a guy doing something 
that nobody else seems inclined to do. Or if they 
are inclined, and there are few who are inclined, like 
for example, Camille Paglia comes to mind right 
away. She says, “I’m his number one fan. I’m a big 
student of McLuhan’s,” and so on. And that may 
well be, and she has a lot of fun doing what she