found a nice archive of marshall mcluhan audio and video excerpts from throughout his career. unfortunately they are all in windows media player format, so i’m shit out of luck. ubuweb has the full 1960’s recording of the lp the medium is the message, but it’s less an exploration of his ideas as a weirdo 60’s freak out to popularize him. it was stuff like this that got him branded as a vaudevillian instead of just an incredibly talented cultural theorist. but hey, the man was way ahead of his time. speaking of which, check out this essay called marshall mcluhan meets william gibson in cyberspace for a view on him in terms of the web. there is more mcluhan in his own words over at mcluhan reloaded. unfortunately it’s all in real media format, so i’m shit out of luck… funny that the work of a techno-pop culture visionary is all presented in crappy depreciated formats. ah well. speaking of depreciated formats, here is his 1961 interview from playboy. all joking aside, wired has a great long piece on mcluhan for anyone interested in the man himself. enjoy.