Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/05548_Field_OMPO T8.txt

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never did read, but so far as I’m concerned, I
always have felt that the question that he asked
which is I think his main contribution, is embedded
in every idea that formed a book for me—whether I
was writing about media in Amusing Ourselves to
Death  or writing about language in Crazy Talk ,
Stupid Talk , or writing about education in Teaching
As A Subversive Activity —that the question that
McLuhan posed is at the heart of it. And the
question is something like: “Does the form of any
medium of communication affect our social
relations, our political ideas, or psychic habits, and
of course, as he always emphasized, our
sensorium?” So that once you have a question like