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McLuhanism|məˈkluːənɪz(ə)m|
The social ideas of the Canadian writer H. Marshall McLuhan (1911–80), such as that the effect of the introduction of the mass media is to deaden the critical faculties of individuals. Hence McLuhaˈnesque a.; McˈLuhanite a. and n., of or pertaining to, an adherent of, McLuhan; McˈLuhanize v. trans., to convert to McLuhanism; to render in a manner typical of McLuhan.
1967Punch 4 Oct. 520/1 Most of us 20th-century electric circuitry villagers by now have got at least the drift of McLuhanism. 1967Spectator 10 Nov. 571/2, I am leaving on one side all McLuhanite arguments that books are on the way out. 1967Observer 10 Dec. 24/3 A suitably McLuhanesque fanfare. 1968Listener 4 Jan. 8/1 Then there is Father Walter Ong, whom Martin Dodsworth once McLuhanised into ‘the Ong with the numinous prose’. Ibid. 6 June 722/3 The demolition of fashionable McLuhanite myths about television has been another of the year's benefits. Ibid. 751/1 It was really a kind of McLuhanesque exercise in the depiction of the influence of media on people's lives. 1968Punch 17 July 100/3 Mr. Turner and director Peter Hammond had bravely attempted to McLuhanise the intractably literary. 1970Times 31 Mar. (Australian Suppl.) p. vi/8 The thesis of Australia in the seventies as a model McLuhanized society is fervently denied by publishers. 1971Guardian 14 Jan. 7/1 McLuhanites and Orwellians are likely to block our view of their masters' arguments. Ibid. 1 Nov. 9/1 One occasionally wonders whether the image—as in some McLuhanesque lens—is not more important than its object. 1972Ibid. 8 Feb. 4/6 It is on the basis of evolution..and not instant McLuhanism that the Swiss delegation has opened negotiations at Brussels. 1973Ibid. 19 Feb. 8/6 Designers on a newspaper—whatever McLuhanesque horror next? |