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

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Limits, Speed

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, p. 109, 1988.

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• Nobody can commit photography alone.

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  Photography, Commit

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

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• Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Moving, Feet, Ease

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

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• Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

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  Agency, Expression, Political

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Barrington Nevitt, Harold Adams Innis (2005). “Marshall McLuhan: American advertising”

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• The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Cameras, Doe

  Arts in society, Volume 3, (p. 242), 1964.

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

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  Media, Environment

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

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• 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?

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  Dad, Men, Media

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

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• Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

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  Country, Identity, World

  1967 'Canada: A Borderline Case', CBC radio broadcast, 29 May.

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• The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.

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  Feelings, Movement, Spontaneous

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• Life. Consider the alternative.

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  Life, Death, Insanity

  1968 War and Peace in the Global Village.

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• In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.

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  Innovation, Age, Obsession

  "Innovation is obsolete". Evergreen review, Volume 15, Issues 86-94, Grove Press, (p. 64), 1971.

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• 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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  Men, Effort, World

  Marshall McLuhan (2010). “The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media”, p.93, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• 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.

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  Art, Action, Painting

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

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• One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.

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  Thinking, Matter, Sense Of Humor

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• The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive.

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  Identity, Generations, Violence

  "The Book of Probes: Marshall McLuhan". Book by Marshall McLuhan, p. 201, 2011.

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• 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

  Discovery, Media, World

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• All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical.

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  Media, Psychics, Faculty

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

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

  Marshall McLuhan

  Space, Acoustics, Form

  "Laws of Media: The New Science " by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 55), 1988.

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• Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he [Jimmy Carter] puts nostalgia in its place.

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  Loss, Men, People

  "McLuhan's last words". "New Scientist" Magazine, January 29, 1981.

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• Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones

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  Science, Past, Acquisition

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• We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.

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  Discovery, Water, Fishes

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

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  Technology, Men, Print

  Marshall McLuhan (1962). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.1, University of Toronto Press

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• 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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  Technology, Psychics, Play

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

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  Time, Culture, Mediums

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

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• A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.

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  Space, Nomadic

  Marshall McLuhan (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy”, p.120, University of Toronto Press

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