Marshall McLuhan quotes - page 9

Q: Why is America the land of the overrated child and the underrated adult? Q: How can children grow up in a world in which adults idolize youthfulness? Q: What happens when the ad makers taker over all the popular myths and poetry? (Marshall McLuhan)
The message of radio is one of violent, unified implosion and resonance. View quote
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The images of mankind have become the most basic thing about them. And they're all software, and disembodied. View quote
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New media are new languages, their grammar and syntax yet unknown. View quote
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People in new environments always produce the new preceptual modality without any difficulty or awareness of change. It is later that the psychic and social realignments baffle societies. View quote
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Man in the electronic age has no possible environment except the globe and no possible occupation except information-gathering. View quote
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Each tetrad gives the etymology of its subject, as an uttering or outering of the body physical or mental, and provides its anatomy in fourfold exegetical manner. View quote
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The invention of typography confirmed and extended the new visual stress of applied knowledge, providing the first uniformly repeatable "commodity,” the first assembly-line, and the first mass-production. View quote
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King Lear is a working model of the process of denudation by which men translate themselves from a world of roles to a world of jobs. View quote
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The Greek "point of view” in both art and chronology has little in common with ours but was much like that of the Middle Ages. View quote
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At the very high speed of living, everybody needs a new career and a new job and a totally new personality every ten years. (Marshall McLuhan)
The new media are not bridges between man and nature - they are nature...The new media are not ways of relating us to the old world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will. View quote
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Electric technology is directly related to our central nervous systems, so it is ridiculous to talk of "what the public wants" played over its own nerves. View quote
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Typography as the first mechanization of a handicraft is itself the perfect instance not of a new knowledge, but of applied knowledge. View quote
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The Greeks invented both their artistic and scientific novelties after the interiorization of the alphabet. View quote
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Speech structures the abyss of mental and acoustic space...it is a cosmic, invisible architecture of the human dark. View quote
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Since Sputnik and the satellites, the planet is enclosed in a manmade environment that ends "Nature" and turns the globe into a repertory theater to be programmed. Shakespeare at the Globe mentioning "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players" (As You Like It, Act II, Scene 7) has been justified by recent events in ways that would have struck him as entirely paradoxical. The results of living inside a proscenium arch of satellites is that the young now accept the public spaces of the earth as role-playing areas. Sensing this, they adopt costumes and roles and are ready to "do their thing" everywhere." View quote
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For the oral man the literal text contains all possible levels of meaning. View quote
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The city no longer exists except as a cultural ghost for tourists. Any highway eatery with its TV set, newspaper and magazine is as cosmopolitan as New York or Paris. View quote
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Literate man, civilized man, tends to restrict and to separate functions, whereas tribal man has freely extended the form of his body to include the universe. (p. 117) View quote
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Dantzig explains why the language of number had to be increased to meet the needs created by the new technology of letters. (Marshall McLuhan)
The metropolis today is a classroom; the ads are its teachers. The traditional classroom is an obsolete detention home, a feudal dungeon. View quote
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The "message" of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs. View quote
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There are no connections in resonant space. There are only interfaces and metamorphoses. View quote
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The ways of thinking implanted by electronic culture are very different from those fostered by print culture. Since the Renaissance most methods and procedures have strongly tended towards stress on the visual organization of knowledge. View quote
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