“I am not a fan of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The idea that anything is better because it comes later is surely borrowed from pre-electronic technologies.”
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Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. Raised in Winnipeg, McLuhan studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his teaching career as a professor of English at several universities in the United States and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto in 1946, where he remained f…
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culture · Canadian philosopher and communications scholar (1911–1980) · philosopher · writer · university teacher · sociologist · literary critic · rhetorician · futurist · literary scholar · opinion journalist · media scholar · also Marshall McLuhan, Herbert Marshall McLuhan, Marshall MacLuhan, Marshall Mac Luhan, McLuhan
Born 21 July 1911 · Died 31 December 1980 · Q193871
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2026· 2 entries
The New Yorker: Marshall McLuhan & the Technological Embrace
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2025· 1 entry
McLuhan's childhood home in Winnipeg was turned into a museum
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2021· 1 entry
scmp.com: How the world caught up with media visionary Marshall McLuhan
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2017· 2 entries
The Sun: Who was Marshall McLuhan? Google Doodle marks 106th birthday of the Canadian man who ‘predicted the internet’
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India TV: Not only this, Marshall McLuhan also predicted the impact of world wide web on the lives of people.
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2011· 2 entries
Nieman Journalism Lab: Marshall McLuhan, Superstar
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At the time of his centenary, the centre established a "Marshall McLuhan Centenary Fellowship" program in his honour
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2008· 1 entry
The centre incorporated in the Coach House Institute, which was subsequently renamed The McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology
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1999· 1 entry
Tom Wolfe suggested that a major under-acknowledged influence on McLuhan's work is the Jesuit philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, whose ideas anticipated those of McLuhan, especially the evolution of the human mind i
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1995· 1 entry
Debray said he saw McLuhan "more as a poet than a historian, a master of intellectual collage rather than a systematic analyst
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1991· 1 entry
McLuhan was named the "patron saint" of Wired magazine and a quote of his appeared on the masthead for the first ten years of its publication
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1986· 1 entry
Chides McLuhan for what he sees as his technologically deterministic stances
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1980· 4 entries
Died 1980-12-31.
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“Language is a form of organized stutter.”
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Was the successor to McLuhan's Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto
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Someone claiming to be McLuhan posted on a Wired mailing list in 1996
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1975· 1 entry
The University of Dallas hosted him from April to May, appointing him to the McDermott Chair
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1970· 1 entry
Was made a Companion of the Order of Canada
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1969· 1 entry
Playboy magazine published a lengthy interview with him
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Molson Prize (1968).
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1967· 2 entries
Was McLuhan's best seller, "eventually selling nearly a million copies worldwide
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“s content, he told Fordham University students in October 1967:”
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1964· 1 entry
“I am pleased to think of my own book The Gutenberg Galaxy as a footnote to the observations of Innis on the subject of the psychic and social consequences, first of writing then of printing.”
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1962· 1 entry
Awarded Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction for The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962).
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1961· 1 entry
And first published by University of Toronto Press, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (1962) is a pioneering study in the fields of oral culture, print culture, cultural studies, media ecology or media-
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1951· 1 entry
As a book, titled The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man, which included only a representative selection of the materials that McLuhan had prepared for it
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1946· 1 entry
Where he remained for the rest of his life
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1940· 1 entry
The McLuhans returned to Saint Louis University, where they started a family as he continued teaching
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1935· 1 entry
Wrote to his mother:Had I not encountered Chesterton I would have remained agnostic for many years at least
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1915· 1 entry
The McLuhan family moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where Marshall grew up and went to school, attending Kelvin Technical School before enrolling in the University of Manitoba in 1928
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1911· 2 entries
In Edmonton, Alberta, and was named "Marshall" from his maternal grandmother's surname
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Born 1911-07-21.
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