Mcluhan Quotes

I think that everybody tries to produce what Marshall McLuhan called a ‘counter environment.' That is, you set yourself in opposition to the kind of mass tendencies which the media set up. That's what's so important about the humanities in the uni­versity...There's something of a personal dialogue between one human being and another. And the fact that this dialogue is being car­ried out in the teeth of all the mass emotion techniques of the electronic media is a very important side of the humanities. (Northrop Frye)
McLuhan after his September 1979 stroke. Brand, Stewart. "McLuhan's last words." New Scientist, 29 Jan 1981. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
PLAYBOY: A Columbia coed was recently quoted in Newsweek as equating you and LSD. "LSD doesn't mean anything until you consume it,” she said. "Likewise McLuhan.” Do you see any similarities? McLUHAN: I'm flattered to hear my work described as hallucinogenic, but I suspect that some of my academic critics find me a bad trip. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition. View quote
Camille Paglia