Marshall McLuhan Quotes - Page 7

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

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Environment, Works Of Art

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• Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Fate, Thinking, America

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• Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.

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  Business, Goal, Advertising

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• 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

  Writing, Magazines, Care

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

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• Language is a form of organized stutter.

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  Definitions, Language, Form

  Interview with John Lennon, (CBS Television), December 1969.

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• Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.

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  Men, Speed, Mass

  "Access", Issues 165-176, National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting, (p. xxiii), 1984.

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• Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Military

  Quoted in Montreal Gazette, 16 May 1975

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• The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.

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  Country, Organization, Village

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

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• Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr

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  Mean, Technology, Men

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• Electronic man has no physical body.

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  Men, Body, Physical Body

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

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• As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

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  Technology, Media, Age

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• Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.

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  Environmental, Identity, Violence

  "Letters of Marshall McLuhan". Book by Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye, p. 514, 1987.

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• Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

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  Light, Space, Silence

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• The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness.

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  Art, Men, Fields

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

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• 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.

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  Unique, Media, Expression

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• Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.

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  Media, Fields, Firsts

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

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• Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.

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  Doe, Electricity

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

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• Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.

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  Home, Car, Privacy

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• We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

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  Future, Mirrors, Human Nature

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• The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

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  Artist, Perception, Training

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• Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness [all-at-once-ness]. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening. ... The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

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  Science, Space, World

  The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (1962)

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

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  Drama, Depth, Youth

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

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• The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

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  Humorous, Blow, Men

  Understanding Media (1964) p. 32

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• Human perception is literally incarnation.

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  Perception, Incarnation, Humans

  Howard Rollin Patch, Walter J. Ong, Marshall McLuhan (1954). “Christian humanism in leters”

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• 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.

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  Space, Light, Information

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