Quote

Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.

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
Space
Framework
Whole
Visuals
Visual
Collapse
Discontinuity
Challenge
Collapses
Flow
Conceptual
Property
Properties
Challenges
Introduced

More quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Image
The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Anything that's popular is a rear-view image.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Affluence creates poverty.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
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
The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.
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
In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.
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
Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration.
Marshall McLuhan