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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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Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.
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...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.
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Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.
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Language is a form of organized stutter.
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Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
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Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up.
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The 'content' of any medium is always another medium.
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The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
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I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt.
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The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
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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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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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... Their power to see environments as they really are.
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Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.
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The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially.
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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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