Marshall McLuhan

Smart men who helped usher in the digital age

A recently discovered interview shows media guru McLuhan is still topical, even prescient

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This year’s Massey Lectures take the form of a five-hour novel by Douglas Coupland about apocalpyse and romance in an airport lounge

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The man who helped us understand media takes on the woman who helped us understand cities

An exclusive excerpt from Douglas Coupland’s biography of Marshall McLuhan

Historian Michael Behiels commences his Citizen op-ed on the present constitutional emergency by describing the prime minister as “our not-so-benign dictator”. Kind of a remarkable rhetorical ploy, that. I’m from the tribe of Westerners who used to gripe about the Liberal “benign dictatorship”, but I realized how and silly overwrought this sort of language was on the day the B.D. Himself was ousted by his own caucus without so much as a “Thanks for the customized golf balls”. Ever since then, my Zen answer to every kerfuffle, foofaraw, and flibberty-floo about Parliament and its powers has been the same, no matter who was in power. Parliament has just as much power as its members care to take. No more, no less.

On his new book, the future of the printed word and bees