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Q: You have followed McLuhan’s work for many,
many years. Can you describe the genesis and
development of McLuhan’s popularity? It seems he
was famous for a time, then fell into relative
decline, and is now being rediscovered.
A: McLuhan first began publishing a lot in the ’50s,
and that’s when I started reading, and reading his
magazine Explorations and reading his first book,
The Mechanical Bride . He was a much-discussed,
extremely controversial figure in Canadian culture
and among a number of communications
specialists around the world. But that was all. And
then in the mid-1960s, perhaps, ’64, ’65, ’66, after