With John Culkin & Tony Schwartz
Marshall McLuhan
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Summary
A wide-ranging conversation links Marshall McLuhan’s media theory to religion, arguing that print culture reshaped Christianity, authority, and individual belief. It contrasts the visual, literate world of Gutenberg with the oral, tactile, and participatory logic of the electric age, using examples from papal infallibility, liturgy, Esalen, and modern media.
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