Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The artist is engaged constantly in building anti-environments. (And, by the way, the Courtly Love people were engaged in making love itself… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
“The constant broadcast and reception of ghostly images via radio and television, according to this notion, had weakened the sense, particularly among youth, of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
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… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
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… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral)… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
