Marshall McLuhan quotes - page 11

The mosaic form of the TV image demands participation and involvement in depth, of the whole being, as does the sense of touch. (Marshall McLuhan)
In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point. View quote
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If we sit and talk in a dark room, words suddenly acquire new meanings and different textures...and on the radio. Given only the sound of a play, we have to fill in all of the senses, not just the sight of the action. So much do-it-yourself, or completion and "closure” of action, develops a kind of independent isolation in the young that makes them remote and inaccessible.”. View quote
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Chinese script is not visual but iconic and tactile. It does not disturb the tribal bonds. View quote
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Manuscript culture is conversational if only because the writer and his audience are physically related by the form of publication as performance. View quote
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The bias of each medium of communication is far more distorting than the deliberate lie. View quote
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We are not Argus-eyed, but Argus-eared. View quote
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The manuscript shaped medieval literary conventions at all levels. View quote
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Today we experience, in reverse, what pre-literate man faced with the advent of writing. View quote
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It is the poets and painters who react instantly to a new medium like radio or TV. View quote
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The stock market was created by the telegraph and the telephone, and its panics are engineered by carefully orchestrated stories in the press. (Marshall McLuhan)
Typography extended its character to the regulation and fixations of languages. View quote
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The only cool PR is provided by one's enemies. They toil incessantly and for free. View quote
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I neither approve nor disapprove. I merely try to understand. Sexual freedom is as natural to newly tribalized youth as drugs. View quote
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Nobody can doubt that the entire range of applied science contributes to the very format of a newspaper. But the headline is a feature which began with the Napoleonic Wars. The headline is a primitive shout of rage, triumph, fear, or warning, and newspapers have thrived on wars ever since. View quote
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Literacy affects the physiology as well as the psychic life of the African. View quote
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The divorce of poetry and music was first reflected by the printed page. View quote
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Until more than two centuries after printing nobody discovered how to maintain a single tone or attitude throughout a prose composition. View quote
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The young are really the heirs to a generation of incompetence. View quote
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Writing turned a spotlight on the high, dim Sierras of speech; writing was the visualization of acoustic space. It lit up the dark. View quote
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The sociologist permits himself to see only what is acceptable to his colleagues. (Marshall McLuhan)
The "natural magic” of the camera obscura anticipated Hollywood in turning the spectacle of the external world into a consumer commodity or package. View quote
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The interiorization of the technology of the phonetic alphabet translates man from the magical world of the ear to the neutral visual world. View quote
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The culture-heroes of preliteracy and postliteracy alike are robots. View quote
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By involving all men in all men, by the electric extension of their own nervous systems, the new technology turns the figure of the primitive society into a universal ground that buries all previous figures. View quote
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