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Life. Consider the alternativ...

Life. Consider the alternative.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

Any understanding of social a...

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

Typography tended to alter la...

Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

Any expensive ad represents t...

Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

I'm not sure who discovered w...

I'm not sure who discovered water, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fish.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

Our technology forces us to l...

Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

My main theme is the extensio...

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.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

The visual power of the phone...

The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

Ads are carefully designed by...

Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

The rythms of typing favour s...

The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

Primitivism has become the vu...

Primitivism has become the vulgar clich? of much modern art and speculation.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued...

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

Scribal culture and Gothic ar...

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

Today we are beginning to not...

Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

Radio affects most intimately...

Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.

Marshall McLuhan 454 quotes

In large measure, writing is ...

In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.

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.

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

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