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because we live in at least two kinds of
environments: the natural, and the symbolic. I
thought it would be helpful to call the programme
Media Ecology. So from the beginning, the spectre
of Marshall McLuhan was all over this department.
Of course since then, so many people, the heirs of
McLuhan’s legacy, have written on the subject
from a McLuhanesque point of view, that he is by
no means even the best person to read on the
subject these days. That wouldn’t bother him
either. All of our students are required to read
McLuhan, but we no longer place his work at the
centre of their studies. I try to get them to