Right. So, it's now eight years. I've many, many notebooks, but what I see when I examine the notebooks now are phases of development toward the work I'm doing at present. I see it in embryonic stages early on, and I begin to see what I thought were simply notes, because they didn't resemble my earlier work, were, actually in early form, the work that I have now begun to do … the new work, in other words. I didn't recognize it at first. I thought it was failed old work.
Stearn: What originally led to your interest in media and the effect of media upon our culture?
This is a free excerpt of 107 words. There are 5,771 words (approx.
19 pages at 300 words per page) in the full critical essay.
Read the rest of this Criticism with our Marshall McLuhan: Interview by Marshall McLuhan with Gerald E. Stearn Access Pass.