Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point. (p. 125)
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Our senses are not receptors so much as reactors and makers of different modalities of space. Perhaps touch is not just skin contact with things, but the very life of things in the mind. (p. 256)
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The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.
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Marx shared with economists then and since the inability to make his concepts include innovational processes. It is one thing to spot a new product but quite another to observe the invisible new environments generated by the action of the product on a variety of pre-existing social grounds. (p. 63)
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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.
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At no period of human culture have men understood the psychic mechanism involved in invention and technology. (p. 300)
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Until writing was invented, we lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, the dark of the mind, the world of emotion, primordial intuition, terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. (p. 13)
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The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature.'
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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
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Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
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Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
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Headlines are icons, not literature. (p. 5)
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All words at every level of prose and poetry and all devices of language and speech derive their meaning from figure / ground relation.
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Money is just the poor man's credit card.
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Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.
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The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
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Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.
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The divorce of poetry and music was first reflected by the printed page. (p. 227)
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Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.
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Tactility is space of the interval.
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We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
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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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There is no connection between the elements in an electric world, which is equivalent to being surrounded by the human unconscious. (p. 260)
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While people are engaged in creating a totally different world, they always form vivid images of the preceding world. (p. 21)