Marshall McLuhan quotes - page 15

It is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behaviour. (Marshall McLuhan)
In Catch-22, the figure of the black market and the ground of war merge into a monster presided over by the syndicate. When war and market merge, all money transactions begin to drip blood. View quote
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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. View quote
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African audiences cannot accept our passive consumer role in the presence of film. View quote
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I am a pattern watcher. (p. 311) View quote
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I heard what you were saying. You - you know nothing of my work. You mean my whole fallacy is wrong. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing. View quote
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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. View quote
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Visual space is the space of detachment. Audile-tactile space is the space of involvement. View quote
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Print created national uniformity and government centralism, but also individualism and opposition to government as such. View quote
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Gutenberg made all history available as classified data: the transportable book brought the world of the dead into the space of the gentlemen's library; the telegraph brought the entire world of the living to the workman's breakfast table. View quote
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When we put our central nervous system outside us we returned to the primal nomadic state. (Marshall McLuhan)
Although meaningless in a tribal context, numbers and statistics assume mythic and magical qualities of infallibility in literate societies. View quote
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The invention of printing did away with anonymity, fostering ideas of literary fame and the habit of considering intellectual effort as private property. View quote
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Since Sputnik, the earth has been wrapped in a dome-like blanket or bubble. Nature ended. View quote
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Try not to have Emily exposed to hours and hours of TV. It is a vile drug which permeates the nervous system, especially in the young. View quote
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Since Sputnik there is no Nature. Nature is an item contained in a man-made environment of satellites and information. View quote
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Formal cause, as logos, incorporates the patterns of side-effects as part of essential nature: tetrads restore poesis and the making process to the study of artefacts. View quote
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The role of the artist is to create an Anti-environment as a means of perception and adjustment. View quote
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You don't like those ideas? I got others! View quote
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Left hemisphere industrialism has blinded the Chinese to the effects of our alphabet: pattern recognition is in the right hemisphere. View quote
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Even pacifist agitation or the nation-wide fever of big sports competitions acts as a spur to war fever in circumstances like ours. Any kind of excitement or emotion contributes to the possibility of dangerous explosions when the feelings of huge populations are kept inflamed even in peacetime for the sake of the advancement of commerce. Headlines mean street sales. It takes emotion to move merchandise. And wars and rumors of wars are the merchandise and also the emotion of the popular press. (Marshall McLuhan)
History as she is harped. Rite words in rote order. (pp. 108-109) View quote
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The discarnate TV user lives in a world between fantasy and dream, and is in a typically hypnotic state, which is the ultimate form and level of participation. View quote
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The new overkill is simply an extension of our nervous system into a total ecological service environment. Such a service environment can liquidate or terminate its beneficiaries as naturally as it sustains them. View quote
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My method is vertical rather than horizontal so the scenery does not change but the texture does. View quote
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