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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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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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To say that the camera cannot lie is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.
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Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.
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Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.
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Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.
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North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.
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I am not a culture critic because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world.
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Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.
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It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.
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Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.
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The user of the electric light - or a hammer, or a language, or a book - is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message.
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The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
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Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
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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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Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
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Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.
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Life. Consider the alternative.
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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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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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It is perhaps typical of very creative minds that they hit very large nails not quite on the head.
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