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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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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
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The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will take on a totally new meaning under conditions of very rapid movement. It will be an information megalopolis.
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Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
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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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In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.
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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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One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.
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Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.
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The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.
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Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.
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If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
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I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
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The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.
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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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The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.
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The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
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If it works, it's obsolete.
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