Marshall McLuhan quotes - page 17

Typography cracked the voices of silence. (Marshall McLuhan)
With TV, came the icon, the inclusive image, the inclusive political posture or stance. View quote
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When technology extends one of our senses, a new translation of culture occurs as swiftly as the new technology is interiorized. View quote
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Dialectic functions by converting everything it touches into figure but metaphor is a means of perceiving one thing in terms of another. View quote
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The present volume to this point might be regarded as a gloss on a single text of Harold Innis: "The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to communication industries hastened the consolidation of vernaculars, the rise of nationalism, revolution, and new outbreaks of savagery in the twentieth century." View quote
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If the criminal appears as a nonconformist who is unable to meet the demand of technology that we behave in uniform and continuous patterns, literate man is quite inclined to see others who cannot conform as somewhat. View quote
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The "interface” of the Renaissance was the meeting of medieval pluralism and modern homogeneity and mechanism – a formula for blitz and metamorphosis. View quote
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Effects are perceived, whereas causes are conceived. Effects always preceed causes in the actual developmental order. View quote
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The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear. View quote
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The coverage is the war. If there were no coverage, there'd be no war. Yes, the newsmen and the mediamen around the world are actually the fighters, not the soldiers anymore. View quote
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People never remember but the computer never forgets. (Marshall McLuhan)
The pre-atomist multisensory void was an animate, pulsating, and moving vibrant interval, neither container nor contained, acoustic space penetrated by tactility. View quote
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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. View quote
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To the blind all things are sudden. (p. 41) View quote
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Environments are invisible. Their groundrules, pervasive structure, and overall patterns elude easy perception. View quote
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Privacy invasion is now one of biggest knowledge industries. View quote
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Audile-tactile space is the space of involvement. We lose "touch" without it. Visual space is the space of detachment. View quote
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Language alone includes all the senses in interplay at all times. View quote
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The comic strip: upholder of Homeric culture. View quote
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Unlike previous environmental changes, the electric media constitutes a total and near-instanteous transformation of culture, values and attitudes. View quote
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The audience, as ground, shapes and controls the work of art. (Marshall McLuhan)
The potential of any new technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors. View quote
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Non-literate societies cannot see films or photos without much training. View quote
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Literacy, in translating man out of the closed world of tribal depth and resonance, gave man an eye for an ear and ushered him into a visual open world of specialized and divided consciousness. View quote
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Sheer visual quantity evokes the magical resonance of the tribal hoard. The box office looms as a return to the echo chamber of bardic incantation. View quote
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