Marshall McLuhan Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

• There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Motivational, Nature, Animal

  "Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds" by Daniel A. Vallero, (p. 367), 2005.

• All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the message. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty - psychic or physical.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Psychics, Political

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

• Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Environment, Process

  American scholar, Volume 35, (p. 200), 1965.

• One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Water, Elements, Environment

• Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Environment, Boundaries

• The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Artist, Media

• A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Light, Environment, Bulbs

• Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Loss, People, Identity

  "Letters of Marshall McLuhan" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 514), 1987.

• Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Environmental, Development

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

• You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear, or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?

  Marshall McLuhan

  Dad, Men, Media

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

• ... Their power to see environments as they really are.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Environment

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

• Technology is that which separates us from our environment.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Science, Technology, Environment

• The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Letting Go, Technology, Men

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

• The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Environmental, Attention, Fields

  Mademoiselle: The Magazine For Smart Young Women, Volume 64 (p. 114), 1966.

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

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Understanding, Way

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

• Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Space, Light, Information

• Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Block, Moving, Communication

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

• Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the groundrules of society. The amateur can afford to lose. The professional tends to classify and specialise, to accept uncritically the groundrules of the environment. The groundrules provided by the mass response of his colleagues serve as a pervasive environment of which he is contentedly unaware. The 'expert' is the man who stays put.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Experts, Patterns

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

• It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Environment, Works Of Art

• Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Drama, Depth, Youth

  "The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects". Book by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, 1967.

• Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns subjects, and schedules.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Children, Educational, Schedules

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

• Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets beaten into a servile pulp by his own mechanical reflexes, which are constantly busy registering and reacting to the violent stimuli which his big, noisy, kinesthetic environment has provided for his unreflective reception.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Hero, Guy, Environment

  "The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man". Book by Marshall McLuhan, "Eye Appeal", p. 79-80, 1951.

• Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Helping, Youth, Revolutionary

• If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Action, Painting

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

• We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

  Marshall McLuhan

  New Inventions, Environment, Invention

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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