McLuhanian

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

McLuhan +‎ -ian

Adjective[edit]

McLuhanian (comparative more McLuhanian, superlative most McLuhanian)

  1. Of or relating to Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980), Canadian educator and philosopher, known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".
    • 2010, Randy Laist, Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo's Novels, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 19:
      Psychoanalytic and neoanalytic egopsychology represents a subjectivist counterpoint to McLuhanian posthumanism, and indeed, Americana is written within the confluence of both psychoanalytic and McLuhanian schools of thought.

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