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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
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Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.
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People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.
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Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.
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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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Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.
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If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might not our current translation of our entire lives into the spiritual form of information seem to make of the entire.
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Jokes are grievances.
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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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Language is a form of organized stutter.
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Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.
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First we build the tools, then they build us.
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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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Art is anything you can get away with.
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The story begins only when the book closes.
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The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form.
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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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Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events.
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I do not explain, I explore.
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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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When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.
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