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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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In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.
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The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.
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I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
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The age of automation is going to be the age of do it yourself.
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Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.
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Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.
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Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.
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Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.
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Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.
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The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
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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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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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We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.
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It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
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The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
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Any breakdown is a breakthrough.
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Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.
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Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
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Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
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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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