Marshall McLuhan Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the old oral cultures, to tribal cohesion and pre-individualist patterns of thought, is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Community, Culture

  Marshall McLuhan, Michel Moos (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.124, Routledge

• Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Dew, Culture

• The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Time, Culture, Mediums

  "Culture Is Our Business" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 168), 1970.

• 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

  Plato, Writing, Media

• 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

  Culture, Hemisphere, Alphabet

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.74, 1988.

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

  Marshall McLuhan

  Light, Culture, Gothic

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.329, University of Toronto Press

• Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Culture, Emotion, Natural

  "Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting". Book by Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker, January 1968.

• ...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

  Culture, Logic, Photograph

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

• There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Culture, Individualism, Eastern

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p. 60, 1988.

• 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

  Culture, World, Way

  "Letters of Marshall McLuhan". Book edited by Corrine McLuhan, Matie Molinaro and William Toye, March 1, 1987.

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