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Q: McLuhan seems to be undergoing a
renaissance, a resurgence. Do you think we are
more receptive to his ideas now, or is it just that
he’s become more necessary?
A: I think there’s a crest in the wave of an
intellectual’s popularity. They come and they go.
McLuhan came. He was very complex. People did
not understand him. In fact, I heard lots of people
criticizing his work who had never even read most
of the work, and the work that they read they
didn’t understand. He was not easy to understand.
When he talked about disincarnate existence, when
he talked about the retribalizing effects of electric