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The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.
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
Writer
Edmonton
Alberta
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
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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 village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.
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Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.
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The mother tongue is propaganda.
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If it works, it's obsolete.
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Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram remain inaccessible to this state of mind.
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The new media are not bridges between man and nature - they are nature...
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Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.
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Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.
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Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.
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