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What we call art would seem to...

What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.

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The artist must ever play and ...

The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes.

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The new media are not ways of ...

The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

All the new media are art form...

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

With the arrival of electric t...

With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

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In a cool medium, the audience...

In a cool medium, the audience is an active constituent of the viewing or listening experience. A girl wearing open-mesh silk stockings or glasses is inherently cool and sensual because the eye acts as a surrogate hand in filling in the low-definition image thus engendered. Which is why boys make passes at girls who wear glasses.

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In the land of the blind, the ...

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

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The new media are not bridges ...

The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature.

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During the Second War, the U.S...

During the Second War, the U.S.O. sent special issues of the principal American magazines to the Armed Forces, with the ads omitted. The men insisted on having the ads back again. Naturally. The ads are by far the best part of any magazine or newspaper. More pains and thought, more wit and art go into the making of an ad than into any prose feature of press or magazine. Ads are news. What is wrong with them is that they are always good news.

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In Jesus Christ, there is no d...

In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.

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A light bulb creates an enviro...

A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.

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To see a man slip on a banana ...

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

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The student of media soon come...

The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.

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People hope that if they screa...

People hope that if they scream loudly enough about 'values' then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.

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The huge advantage of Canada i...

The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.

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All media are extensions of so...

All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical.

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My main theme is the extension...

My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

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Our technology forces us to li...

Our technology forces us to live mythically

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The car has become an article ...

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

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You can be a French Canadian o...

You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....