Quote

Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

Marshall McLuhan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Marshall MacLuhan
Marshall Mac Luhan
Quests
Quest
Technological
Disappear
Innovation
Identity
Violence
Recourse
Natural
Disappears

More quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Image
At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
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?
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Only the vanquished remember history.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The most human thing about us is our technology.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
First we build the tools, then they build us.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
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.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Language is a form of organized stutter.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the content of the other, obscuring the operation of both.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
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.
Marshall McLuhan