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
“Education must shift from instruction, from imposing of stencils, to discovery—to probing and exploration and to the recognition of the language of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity. — 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 Image
By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“That outering or uttering of sense which is language and speech is a tool which “made it possible for man to accumulate… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The user of the electric light - or a hammer, or a language, or a book - is the content. As such,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Language is metaphor in the sense that it not only stores but translates experience from one mode into another. Money is metaphor… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of… — 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
