mcluhanist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to McLuhanism; informed by the ideas of Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan.
noun
Adherent of or believer in McLuhanism; one who follows the ideas of Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan.
Example Sentences
- "Marie Winn has succeeded in moving the conversation forward. It is refreshing to step off the forensic merry-go-round to take a fresh look at the landscape from a McLuhanist perspective."
- "In a "McLuhanist interpretation," he [Ron Silliman] points to a variety of social phenomena from the method of speed reading to the progressive standardization of expository writing to the "apotheosis of language activity repressed—the mass market novel.""
- "The novella avoids depth – in much the same way as most TV programming does – by following sit-com ’rules’ and employing superficial novelty, instead of following up in any thoughtful way the McLuhanist ramifications it artistically introduces."
- "In order to really understand the full scope of this we do need to dig a bit more into the technical aspects, because that technical functionality informs the way the rest of the system behaves. In a very McLuhanist way, the machine shapes the environment around it."
- "A group of members of the congress from North America, which lay geographically between the East and West, sought to unify the views of the Teutons, the Middle Easterners, and their native McLuhanists."
- "At its core, rock video is the kind of cultural shotgun wedding that delights the heart of any aging McLuhanist: rock, radio, movies, music, video, new technologies and new marketing tilting the popular culture onto an angle so it can, if so ordained, slip off onto a whole new course."