Marshall McLuhan Archives

Marshall McLuhan

Visual Tedium

by Tom Wolfe,

From “The Painted Word,” which appeared in the April 1975 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. People don’t read…

Beyond the Book

by Mark Kingwell,

By Mark Kingwell, from a keynote speech delivered in May at the annual meeting of the Writers’ Union of Canada and published in the Ottawa Citizen. Kingwell is a professor…