New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the… — 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… — 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
Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of… — 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
“The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The media have substituted themselves for the older world. Even if we should wish to recover that older world we can do… — 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… — 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… — 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
You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The… — 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
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
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
“By the way, goals and objectives are meaningless at the speed of light. At the speed of light, you aren’t going somewhere,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“It is not brains or intelligence that is needed to cope with the problems with Plato and Aristotle and all of their… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus. — 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
All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential. — 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
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
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
