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The point here is not that people can and will borrow language from major rhetorical prose poetry but that in the process of borrowing McLuhanism frequently tends to use the language and reject the artistic force - the complexity - of the percepts. 34 The Virtual McLuhan There are fascinations with and commitments to McLuhan (that might be called McLuhanisms) which, while McLuhan might not embrace them, retain basic aspects of his spirit, such as his wit or his endless curiousity about the hermetic and the occult or his interest in the avant-garde.
Therefore the subsequent chapters will take up various aspects of the McLuhan phenomenon, beginning with an overview of its fundamentals, including a brief view of the peculiar significance of his thesis and its history of education, expression, and 35 Introduction communication from Greece and Rome until the beginnings of the Gutenberg era. ) since it is relevant that as a correspondent he considered the epistolary style to be nearest to what I will dub the dia-{mon}-ologic conversation that characterized one of his greatest strengths and thus is most revelatory of his essential conservatism and commitment to faith and tradition.
Moving into a post-electric society of games and playfulness, he reintegrated the traditional importance of play to knowledge with the role of the artist and the rhetorico-grammarian (the ideal of modern publicist in a responsible mode) in its development and transmission. Through the core of his "poetic science," he restored the importance of, and created the interest in, the history of communication, media, modes of expression, and technologies. McLuhan was able to situate contemporary dilemmas in relation to history - the pre-history of writing, the unfolding history of writing and its mechanization, the history of the modes of understanding communication within the classical trivium, the history of printing and of electro-mechanization, and the history of post-electric media, and, finally, to associate this entire project with its parallels, echoes, and the like in the history of arts.