Marshall McLuhan quotes - page 4

Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. (Marshall McLuhan)
Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment. View quote
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Our technology forces us to live mythically. View quote
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the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions. View quote
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Our permanent address is tommorrow. View quote
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The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati. View quote
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Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode – a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground. View quote
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The logos of creation, 'And God Said...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature. View quote
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Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity. View quote
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When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result. View quote
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It is the medium that shapes and controls the scale and form of human association and action. (Marshall McLuhan)
Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons. View quote
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A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters. View quote
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The most human thing about us is our technology. View quote
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Primitivism has become the vulgar cliche of much modern art and speculation. View quote
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All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information. View quote
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Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure. View quote
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The percept takes priority of the concept. View quote
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Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users. View quote
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Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly. View quote
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If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting. (Marshall McLuhan)
While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious. View quote
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The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the old oral cultures, to tribal cohesion and pre-individualist patterns of thought, is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community. View quote
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The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention. View quote
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Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual. View quote
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