Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/04959_Field_OMDK T58.txt

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Q:  What are McLuhan’s flaws?

A:  It’s the very thing I was talking about—it’s his
method. Nobody can grab him. There’s no place
where you can handle that stuff. Because he
refused to have a theoretical body, and everything
came out as aphorisms and insights, it’s non-
usable material. There are two things about that.
One thing is that it is not re-usable except as is,
and then it’s mouthing McLuhan and that becomes
a dismal game that is played by some McLuhanites
who I don’t want to name. Or what you had is a
bunch of poetic or mantic pronouncements that
are open to piles of interpretations and fail the