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Marshall McLuhan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1911
Born: July 21
Died: 1980
Died: December 31
Literary Critic
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University Teacher
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Edmonton
Alberta
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Our technology forces us to live mythically
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Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets beaten into a servile pulp by his own mechanical reflexes, which are constantly busy registering and reacting to the violent stimuli which his big, noisy, kinesthetic environment has provided for his unreflective reception.
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It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
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The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.
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A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
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Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.
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I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
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Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.
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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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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.
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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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Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence.
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It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.
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At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.
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...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.
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Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.
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Language is a form of organized stutter.
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Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
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Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else's affairs.
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Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
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