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Marshall McLuhan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1911
Born: July 21
Died: 1980
Died: December 31
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Sociologist
University Teacher
Writer
Edmonton
Alberta
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
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Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.
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In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.
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The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.
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Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.
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A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them.
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Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.
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The mother tongue is propaganda.
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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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Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.
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The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
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Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.
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We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.
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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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Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.
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The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.
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I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
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Life. Consider the alternative.
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For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.
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Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.
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Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
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