Marshall McLuhan Quotes - Page 9

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• The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Patterns, Conformity, Revulsion

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

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• The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Life, Way, Modern

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

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• The new media are not bridges between man and nature - they are nature...

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Bridges, Media

  "Media as the New Nature" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 14), 1969.

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• ...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Culture, Logic, Photograph

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

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• The winner is one who knows when to drop out in order to get in touch.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Order, Winner, Knows

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• Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Educational, War, Independent

  1964 UnderstandingMedia, ch.33.

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• The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.

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  Art, Technology, Space

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.155, University of Toronto Press

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• Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

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  Art, Dew, Culture

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• A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Book, Reading, Successful

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• The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.

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  Village, Situation, Interfaces

  "The Education of Mike McManus" (TV Ontario), December 28, 1977.

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• In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Writing, Media

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• The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

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  Mom, Dad, Character

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

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• Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Land, People, Ego

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• All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Political, Patterns, Information

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

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• Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Writing, Exploration, Absence

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• If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Technology, Psychics

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• Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Communication, Offering, World

  "Understanding Media : The Extensions of Man" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 261), 1964.

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• The medium is the message.

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  Hippie, Messages, Mediums

  Understanding Media title of ch. 1 (1964)

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• For the satiated, both sex and speed are pretty boring until the element of danger and even death is introduced.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Sex, Elements, Boring

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• The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

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  Science, Technology, Car

  Understanding Media (1964) p. 217

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• In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.

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  Jesus, Distance, Messages

  Marshall McLuhan (2010). “The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media”, p.103, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Today, the mass audience (the successor to the "public") can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given packages of passive entertainment. Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Yesterday, Creative, Today

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

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• The real news is bad news.

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  Real, News, Journalism

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• The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.

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  Media, Favour, Form

  Marshall McLuhan (1969). “Counter blast [by] Marshall McLuhan”

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• The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.

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  Eye, Noses, Modern

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