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happens is that, around the end of the ’80s, there
was a great perception of the fact, an awareness
of the fact that once again, we are encountering
some extraordinary techno-cultural
transformations. At this point I think it becomes
quite clear, looking back, that what McLuhan
offered was a kind of theory of cultural
transformation. Now why do I say that? Because if
events had not seemed to resonate with the kinds
of patterns that he was talking about, he would
have been seen as a poet. Instead, suddenly he
began to emerge as a kind of theorist or a kind of
philosopher, that is someone who had things to
say at a previous time that were now relevant in a