Marshall McLuhan quotes - page 10

Without an anti-environment, all environments are invisible. (Marshall McLuhan)
The professional tends to classify and to specialize, to accept uncritically the ground rules of the environment. The ground rules provided by the mass response of his colleagues serves as a pervasive environment of which he is contentedly unaware. View quote
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War is never anything less than accelerated technological change. View quote
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Every technology contrived and "outered” by man has the power to numb human awareness during the period of its first interiorization. View quote
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Every process pushed far enough tends to reverse or flip suddenly. Chiasmus – the reversal to process caused by increasing its speed, scope or size. View quote
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Great ages of innovation are the ages in which entire cultures are junked or scrapped. View quote
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The world of the Greeks illustrates why visual appearances cannot interest people before the interiorization of alphabetic technology. View quote
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Prose is private drama; poetry is corporate drama. View quote
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After childhood, the senses specialize via the channels of dominant technologies and social weaponries. View quote
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War has become the environment of our time if only because it is an accelerated form of innovation and education. View quote
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The automated presidential surrogate is the superlative nobody. (Marshall McLuhan)
Cultural dominance by either the left or the right hemisphere is largely dependent upon environmental factors. View quote
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The typographic logic created "the outsider,” the alienated mass, as the type of integral, that is, intuitive and irrational, man. View quote
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The dyslexic: Everyman as cubist. View quote
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One of the things that happens at the speed of light is that people lose their goals in life. So what takes the place of goals and objectives? Well, role-playing is coming in very fast. View quote
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Interdeterminacy was a figure-ground problem arising from incongruity between the visual bias of classical science and the new acoustic sensibilities. View quote
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The Eskimo, like any pre-literate, leaps easily from the Paleolithic stone age to the electric age, by-passing the Neolithic specialism. View quote
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The new science of communication is percept, not concept. View quote
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Every mode of technology is a reflex of our most intimate psychological experience. View quote
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By surpassing writing, we have regained our wholeness, not on a national or cultural but cosmic plane. View quote
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Psychic communal integration, made possible at last by the electronic media, could create the universality of consciousness foreseen by Dante when he predicted that men would continue as no more than broken fragments until they were unified into an inclusive consciousness...This is a new interpretation of the mystical body of Christ; and Christ, after all, is the ultimate extension of man. (Marshall McLuhan)
Radio provides a speed-up of information that also causes acceleration in other media. It certainly contracts the world to village size and creates insatiable village tastes for gossip, rumour, and personal malice. View quote
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Renaissance Italy became a kind of Hollywood collection of sets of antiquity, and the new visual antiquarianism of the Renaissance provided an avenue to power for men of any class. View quote
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The nuclear bomb will turn warfare into the juggling of images. View quote
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In the electric age, when our central nervous system is technologically extended to involve us in the whole of mankind and to incorporate the whole of mankind in us, we necessarily participate, in depth, in the consequences of our every action. It is no longer possible to adopt the aloof and dissociated role of the literate Westerner. View quote
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Marshall McLuhan

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Occupation: Canadian Educator
Born: July 21, 1911
Died: December 31, 1980
Quotes count: 532
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