The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture… — 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 logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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)… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
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 Image
