One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for… — 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
[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human… — 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
Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground - situations in which the human factor… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience. — 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 village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly. — 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
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