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“Everybody experiences far more than he
understands. Yet it is experience, rather than
understanding, that influences behaviour,
especially in collective matters of media and
technology, where the individual is almost
inevitably unaware of their effect upon him.” (1964,
p.318)
McLuhan as intellectual can be appraised as a 20th
century contributor to an ancient hermeneutic
enterprise, the understanding of understanding.
Once re-read, his work provides an original
hypothesis about how we come to understand as
we do. From the horizon of the 1990s, a central