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When new technologies impose ...

When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

The movie stars and matinee i...

The movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They can be bought and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

The modern nose, like the mod...

The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

I am not a "culture critic" b...

I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

All meaning alters with accel...

All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

The world of visual perspecti...

The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.

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In large measure, writing is ...

In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

The content or message of any...

The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

The products of modern scienc...

The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

Pornography and violence are ...

Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

The cave art of Madison Avenu...

The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

The past went that-a-way. Whe...

The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

The village had institutional...

The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

Physiologically, man in the n...

Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth.

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The artist is the man in any ...

The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness.

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Today's child is growing up a...

Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.

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Control over change would see...

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

Persons grouped around a fire...

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

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The 'content' of any medium i...

The 'content' of any medium is always another medium.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

...the logic of the photograp...

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

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