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Art is anything you can get away with.
Marshall McLuhan
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Marshall McLuhan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1911
Born: July 21
Died: 1980
Died: December 31
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Sociologist
University Teacher
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Edmonton
Alberta
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
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One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.
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The medium is the message because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.
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In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.
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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.
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The 'expert' is the man who stays put.
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Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.
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Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.
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If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?
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Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
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The user of the electric light - or a hammer, or a language, or a book - is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message.
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Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.
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The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.
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Today, the mass audience (the successor to the public) can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given packages of passive entertainment. Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.
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