Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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Does the interiorization of media such as letters alter the ratio among our senses and change mental processes? (p. 28)
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Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.
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Instead of scurrying into a corner and wailing about what media are doing to us, one should charge straight ahead and kick them in the electrodes.
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The divorce of poetry and music was first reflected by the printed page. (p. 227)
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Bacon's Adam is a medieval mystic and Milton's a trade union organizer. (p. 214)
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Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.
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The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture. (p. 168)
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Applied knowledge in the Renaissance had to take the form of translation of the auditory into visual terms, of the plastic into retinal form. (p. 180)
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With Gutenberg Europe enters the technological phase of progress, when change itself becomes the archetypal norm of social life. (p. 177)
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The sheer increase in the quantity of information movement favoured the visual organization of knowledge and the rise of perspective even before typography. (p. 128)
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There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
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The typographic lore of school children points to the gap between the scribal and typographic man. (p. 103)
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The typographic logic created 'the outsider,' the alienated mass, as the type of integral, that is, intuitive and irrational, man. (p. 241)
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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)
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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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The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.
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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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All media of communications are cliches serving to enlarge man's scope of action, his patterns of associations and awareness. These media create environments that numb our powers of attention by sheer pervasiveness.
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All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
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The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos – resonant utterance or word.
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Money is a poor man's credit card.
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Money is just the poor man's credit card.
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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.