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Q: McLuhan seems to be making a resurgence in
the popular culture. Why?
A: I think we’re at the moment now when people
feel that media should be at the centre of the
cultural agenda and I don’t want a situation where
we have, as in the Ivy League, cultural studies, as
it’s called, taking over the analysis of media. It is
so pedantic, so academic, a bunch of nerds sitting
around in the Ivy League humanities department,
who think, “We’ll just take this one video by George
Michael and we’ll compare it to something by
Foucault.” That is ridiculous! I hate it! We have
examples of these kind of dilettante, Ivy League