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- adjective Of or relating to Herbert Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980),
Canadian educator andphilosopher , known for coining the expressions "themedium is themessage " and "global village ".
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McLuhan + -ian
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Bing (Sort Of) rosacrouch said "I do not really get how exactly you connect the McLuhanian probe of the technological determinism of"
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There they were, Seattle's poets, painters, musicians, and filmmakers; people whom one would guess might be cultured and sophisticated; but were they discussing Gäodel, Escher, or Bach; were they casting a particularly illuminating light upon the stock-market crash, relating it to McLuhanian technology theory or "The Fall of the House of Usher-?
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994
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