Marshall McLuhan Quotes - Page 14

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• Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Reflection, Faithful, One Day

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• Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Stress, Mean, Technology

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

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

  Marshall McLuhan

  Teacher, Men, Conversation

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

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

  Marshall McLuhan

  Unique, Discovery, Two

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

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• 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”

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• It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Responsibility, Differences, People

  "Classroom Without Walls". Explorations Magazine, Volume 7, 1957; reprinted in "Explorations in Communication" edited by E. Carpenter and M. McLuhan, 1960, and in "McLuhan: Hot and Cool" edited by Gerald Emanuel Stearn, 1967.

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• The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Space, Greek, Utterance

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p. 35, 1988.

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• 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

  Technology, Politics, Computer

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• 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.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Identity, Resources, Know How

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Sleep, Idols, Tower Of Babel

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.208, University of Toronto Press

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• I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Would Be, Arrogant, Things To Do

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

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• Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Space, Challenges, Flow

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.43, 1988.

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• If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might not our current translation of our entire lives into the spiritual form of information seem to make of the entire.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Spiritual, Men, Cities

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

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• Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Expression, Play, Perception

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• In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Mind, Utterance

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• Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Character, Two, Experts

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

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• The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Fall, World, Nostalgia

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

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Perception, Language

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.183, University of Toronto Press

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• The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Canada, Advantage, Huge

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• Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Psychics, Action, Social

  Marshall McLuhan, Bruce R. Powers (1989). “The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Shapes, Patterns

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.330, University of Toronto Press

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• If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Birthday, Age, Chairs

  1964 UnderstandingMedia.

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• By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Sound, Alphabet

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, p. 15, 1988.

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• The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Law, Logos

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p. 127, 1988.

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• The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Space, Victory, Rebel

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.42, 1988.

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