McLuhan benefits from the New Journalism's ALL CAPS :
"What . . .if. . .he . . .is . . . right ...W-h-a-t -i-f-h-e- i-s- r-i-g-h-t...W H A T I F H E I S R I G H T !"
with hidden plastic cheaters on it. … I couldn’t keep my eyes off it.” - Tom Wolfe
Sheep In Wolfe's Clothing ...
McLuhan's alternate title for Wolfe's essay " What If He's Right ? " :
The experience with Wolfe held forth the pattern for future reversionings of the McLuhan myth by future pundits. Theall says it well. "Wolfe is indicative of what McLuhanism was to become, since he creates a virtual McLuhan, who will be re-created again and again, a situation McLuhan invites because, as a pop poet, he is also crafting Marshall McLuhan as the pop poem. While others who follow may produce differing McLuhan’s, in a way they will all be different, as most of the varying exegeses of a modernist poem differ."
"What . . .if. . .he . . .is . . . right ...W-h-a-t -i-f-h-e- i-s- r-i-g-h-t...W H A T I F H E I S R I G H T !"
Gentlemen, the General Electric Company makes a considerable portion of its profits from electric light bulbs, but it is not yet discovered that it is not in the light bulb business but in the business of moving information. Quite as much as A. T. & T. Yes. Of course-I-am-willing-to-be-patient. He pulls his chin down into his neck and looks up out of his ion' Scotch-lairdly face. Yes. The electric light is pun information it is a medium without a message as it were Yes. Light is a self- contained communications system in which the medium is the message Just think that over for a moment-I-am-willing-to-be - When IBM discovered that it was not in the business of making office equipment or business machines
“The first thing I noticed about him was that he wore some kind of trick snap-on neck tie- but that it was in the business
of processing
information,
then it began
to navigate
with
clear
vision.
Yes.
of processing
information,
then it began
to navigate
with
clear
vision.
Yes.
with hidden plastic cheaters on it. … I couldn’t keep my eyes off it.” - Tom Wolfe
Sheep In Wolfe's Clothing ...
McLuhan's alternate title for Wolfe's essay " What If He's Right ? " :
" I'd Rather Be Wrong. "
The experience with Wolfe held forth the pattern for future reversionings of the McLuhan myth by future pundits. Theall says it well. "Wolfe is indicative of what McLuhanism was to become, since he creates a virtual McLuhan, who will be re-created again and again, a situation McLuhan invites because, as a pop poet, he is also crafting Marshall McLuhan as the pop poem. While others who follow may produce differing McLuhan’s, in a way they will all be different, as most of the varying exegeses of a modernist poem differ."
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