We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“The past went a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Art as radar acts as an early alarm system, as it were, enabling us to discover social and psychic targets in lots… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing.… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“The job of art is not to store moments of experience but to explore environments that are otherwise invisible. Art is not… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect 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
