Interview with Marshall McLuhan

• Autor(a) principal: E-Compós, Comissão Editorial
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: E-Compós
• Texto Completo: https://www.e-compos.org.br/e-compos/article/view/845

This interview with Marshall McLuhan was first published in the French magazine L’Express in February 1972. In December 2011 it was translated into Portuguese and published in ALCEU (vol.12, n.23), a Communication journal published by PUC-Rio university. That version is available online at http://revistaalceu.com.puc-rio.br/media/Artigo1%20Entrevista%20MacLuhan.pdf . Thanks to the kind authorization for republication given by PUC-Rio publisher, it has been possible to include this piece in this special issue dedicated to McLuhan. For this, the editorial commission of E-Compós is especially grateful. McLuhan was 60 when he gave this interview to a weekly news magazine. He was then at the height of his fame, garnering faithful followers and bitter enemies alike – at both ends of the political spectrum, right and left. It is a historic document which, allowing for the spirit of those days, still reveals the intellectual brightness, the provocative attitude and the controversial assertions for which the “prophet of the electric age” was famous.