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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
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
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Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
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Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.
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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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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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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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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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Life. Consider the alternative.
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The age of automation is going to be the age of do it yourself.
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A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
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I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.
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Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.
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If it works, it's obsolete.
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Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones
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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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Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.
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Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.
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One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)
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In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.
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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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Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
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