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McLuhan was one of a number of figures which
would include for me, Allen Ginsberg, Norman O.
Brown, later on and Leslie Fiedler, and so on—
figures who had kind of a general view of culture
and who I consider sort of the foundation stones
of my work.
Now, it’s just shocking to me that we’ve had a
period over the last 20 years where a bunch of
French theorists who know nothing about media
have been the dominant god figures of the Ivy
League and all other kinds of chic campuses
across the country. It just amazes me because
none of the French theorists, none of the experts