Q:  If there is a resurgence of interest in Marshall 
McLuhan, what would you attribute it to?

A:  A vacuum in thinking, at the moment generally. I 
suppose people are trying to come to terms with 
the increasing banality of what’s on television and 
the surfeit of information. And so we’re all 
struggling, I think to try and achieve some 
intellectual understanding of the stupefying of our 
lives or the information that we’re getting in our 
lives—and there’s Marshall McLuhan to explain it 
all.