McLuhanist
McLuhanist adjective: of or relating to McLuhanism; informed by the ideas of Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan.
Adjective
McLuhanist (comparative more McLuhanist, superlative most McLuhanist)
- Of or relating to McLuhanism; informed by the ideas of Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan.
- Marie Winn has succeeded in moving the conversation forward. It is refreshing to step off the forensic merry-go-round to take a fresh look at the landscape from a McLuhanist perspective.1977 March 26, Richard A. Blake, “Forget the Message, Worry About the Medium”, in America Magazine: The Jesuit Review of Faith & Culture, volume 136, number 22, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 276
- In a "McLuhanist interpretation," he [Ron Silliman] points to a variety of social phenomena from the method of speed reading to the progressive standardization of expository writing to the "apotheosis of language activity repressed—the mass market novel."1987 April, Patricia Pace, “Language Poetry: The Radical Writing Project”, in Literature in Performance, volume 7, number 2, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, page 24
- Synonyms:
- McLuhanian
Noun
McLuhanist (plural McLuhanists)
- Adherent of or believer in McLuhanism; one who follows the ideas of Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan.
- A group of members of the congress from North America, which lay geographically between the East and West, sought to unify the views of the Teutons, the Middle Easterners, and their native McLuhanists.1975 July, Siarl Tyno, “The Schlichtmeier Gap: A Report Based on Recent Archeological Findings”, in Journal of the American Society for Information Science, volume 26, number 4, Wiley, →DOI, →ISSN...
- At its core, rock video is the kind of cultural shotgun wedding that delights the heart of any aging McLuhanist: rock, radio, movies, music, video, new technologies and new marketing tilting the popular culture onto an angle so it can, if so ordained, slip off onto a whole new course.1983 December 26, Jay Cocks, “Sing a Song of Seeing”, in Time Magazine, volume 122, number 27, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 56
- Synonyms:
- McLuhanite
Examples of McLuhanist in a sentence
- In a very McLuhanist way, the machine shapes the environment around it.2022 January 21, Folding Ideas [pseudonym; Dan Olson], 24:40 from the start, in Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs, via YouTube, archived...
- But Deleuzians or McLuhanists could certainly be neo-liberals.2024 December, Nikola Mlađenović, “Knowledge, neo-liberalism and mediatization: The crystal of Wikipedia”, in Empedocles: European Journal...
Synonyms of McLuhanist
Forms of McLuhanist
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more McLuhanist |
| superlative | most McLuhanist |
| Noun | |
| plural | McLuhanists |
Origin of McLuhanist
McLuhan + -ist
Questions about McLuhanist
- What does McLuhanist mean?
- McLuhanist means of or relating to McLuhanism; informed by the ideas of Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan.
- How do you use McLuhanist in a sentence?
- In a very McLuhanist way, the machine shapes the environment around it.
- What part of speech is McLuhanist?
- McLuhanist can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near McLuhanist in the dictionary
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