Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/05549_Field_OMPO T9.txt

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that you can look at almost any social institution
and put that question at the centre of it. And I
think I’ve done that in every book I’ve written.
Certainly, it was right from the first, because the
first book I wrote was for the National Council of
Teachers of English, and it was about television—it
was called Television and the Teaching of English .
And I know I couldn’t have written that book if I
hadn’t known about McLuhan. So far as I’m
concerned, my career as a writer and teacher and
social critic, has been dependent on McLuhan,
what I call McLuhan’s question. Now I should add
that it’s not that others, let’s say Louis Mumford
for example, didn’t ask this question before