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At electric speed, all forms ...

At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

Media are means of extending ...

Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

On Spaceship Earth there are ...

On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect everybody else.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

Pornography and obscenity...w...

Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground - situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

The potential of any technolo...

The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

When two seemingly disparate ...

When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.

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Typographic man can express b...

Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.

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I am curious to know what wou...

I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

Information and images bump a...

Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session.

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Erwin Schrodinger has explain...

Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visual, electronic world in the language of the visual world of Newton.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

The hallucinogenic world, in ...

The hallucinogenic world, in environmental terms, can be considered as a forlorn effort of man to match the speed of power of hisextended nervous system (which we call the "electronic world") by intensifying the activity of his inner nervous system.

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Typography is not only a tech...

Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence.

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For those for whom the sex ac...

For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.

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Positively, the effect of spe...

Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.

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Relativity theory forced the ...

Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.

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It is always the psychic and ...

It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the hemispheres and of human sensibilities into equilibrium with those grounds.

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The movie, by sheer speeding ...

The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure.

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Cubism ('multi-locationalism'...

Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.

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Nowadays there is no conversa...

Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.

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The meaning of experience is ...

The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation.

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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...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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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....