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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
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Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
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Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.
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In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.
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My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
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Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.
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All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.
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An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.
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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
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The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature.
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The 'content' of any medium is always another medium.
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The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.
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It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.
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Invention is the mother of necessities.
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The most human thing about us is our technology.
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Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.
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Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.
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The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.
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Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.
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Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.
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Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?
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