McLuhanite Dean?

Our new Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences is art curator Bruce Ferguson (announced late last night). Not only is it refreshing to have a dean from the arts, but I also discovered while browsing the web that he has a background in McLuhan (somehow that point never surfaced during the search process). All the better. We can talk McLuhan next year.

I’ve spoken about overrated figures in this space before. But if the topic were underrated figures, I happen to think that McLuhan’s depth and seriousness are grossly underrated. I think he’s one of the handful of most important thinkers of the 20th century, and will eventually write a book showing why. (A few articles are already out there.)