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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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Invention is the mother of necessities.
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All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical.
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Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.
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Our technology forces us to live mythically
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Only the vanquished remember history.
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The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.
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I do not explain, I explore.
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The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.
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Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.
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There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.
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The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.
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By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.
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We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.
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Life. Consider the alternative.
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Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.
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Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
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Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.
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Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
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The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.
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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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