Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that,… — 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
A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
"Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet,… — 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
Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical.… — 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
