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Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.
Marshall McLuhan
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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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The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.
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Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.
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Work does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.
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Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
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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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What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.
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Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.
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The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure.
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Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.
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Affluence creates poverty.
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We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.
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Language is a form of organized stutter.
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The media have substituted themselves for the older world.
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