Quote

The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration.

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
Single
Use
Time
Exploration
Multiple
Method
Models

More quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Image
It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.
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
Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.
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 content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Electronic man has no physical body.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They can be bought and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the Tower of Babel by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The story begins only when the book closes.
Marshall McLuhan