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"Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) is one of the most cited and least carefully read theorists of the twentieth century. Lodged in the public imagination as the prophet of "the medium is the message" and "the global village," his actual body of work — running from *The Mechanical Bride* (1951) through the posthumous *Laws of Media* (1988) — is far stranger, more rigorous in places, and far more idiosyncratic and unfinished in others, than the popular reception suggests."

From # A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concepts, Neuroscience, Unexplored Territory, and Critical Reception

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