Marshall McLuhan Quotes - Page 8

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• Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Artist, Creative, Lasts

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• When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Long, Anxiety

  Marshall McLuhan (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.125, Routledge

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• The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Ignorant, Investing, Scientist

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

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• Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Agency, Today, Classroom

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• The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Alphabet, Detachment

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

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• 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.

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• Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Light, Media, Acting

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

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• In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Birthday, Moving, Technology

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• A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Typewriters, Transcribing

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• Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Roots, Phenomenology, Ears

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.62, 1988.

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• A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Views, Understanding, Matter

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

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• Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Education, World, Expendables

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• Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Effort, Intellectual, World

  Commonweal, Volume 58 (p. 557), 1953.

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• Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Intelligent, People

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• I am a Christian according to my conscience in belief,in purpose and wish;Mnot of course by the orthodox standard. But I am content, and have a feeling of trust and safety.
  The Machiavellian mind and the merchant mind are at one in their simple faith in the power of segmental division to rule all--in the dichotomy of power and morals and of money and morals.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Christian, Money, Simple

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• The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Photography, Travel, Encounters

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

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• The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will take on a totally new meaning under conditions of very rapid movement. It will be an information megalopolis.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Real, Cities, Movement

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

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• The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the
  psyche and society into a single echo chamber.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Echoes, Depth, Antiques

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

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• It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Media, Framework

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• The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, May, Patterns

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

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• Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Powerful, Yield, Demand

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

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• The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Bombs, Messages, Atomic Bomb

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• Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Education, Children, Growing Up

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

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• 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.

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• Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Inevitable, Contemplating, Willing

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