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Raymond Williams
McLuhan was labelled a technological determinist by Raymond Williams1.
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McLuhan was labelled a technological determinist by Raymond Williams
# A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concept
“McLuhan has been routinely labelled a technological determinist, most influentially by Raymond Williams (1974)”
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"McLuhan is a technological determinist"
Asserted by Raymond Williams · stance: pro
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# A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concept ↗
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"McLuhan reduces the complex socio-political shaping of technology to a unidirectional causal flow from technology to consciousness"
Asserted by Raymond Williams · stance: critical
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