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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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Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.
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Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.
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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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The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.
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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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Jokes are grievances.
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The new media are not bridges between man and nature - they are nature...
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First we build the tools, then they build us.
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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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The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
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People hope that if they scream loudly enough about values then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.
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It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the hemispheres and of human sensibilities into equilibrium with those grounds.
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We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.
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A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
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Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
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As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.
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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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The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.
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The 'expert' is the man who stays put.
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The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature.
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