Media Quotes by Marshall McLuhan

In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.

— Marshall McLuhan

The media have substituted themselves for the older world.

— Marshall McLuhan

All media work us over completely.

— Marshall McLuhan

Education is civil defence against media fallout.

— Marshall McLuhan

... Their power to see environments as they really are.

— Marshall McLuhan

The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature.

— Marshall McLuhan

The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.

— Marshall McLuhan

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the…

— Marshall McLuhan

The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up.

— Marshall McLuhan

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

— Marshall McLuhan

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

— Marshall McLuhan

Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.

— Marshall McLuhan

New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.

— Marshall McLuhan

Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new…

— Marshall McLuhan

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of…

— Marshall McLuhan

In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human…

— Marshall McLuhan

The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what…

— Marshall McLuhan

“The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those…

— Marshall McLuhan

New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could…

— Marshall McLuhan

The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin,…

— Marshall McLuhan

The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body…

— Marshall McLuhan

The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the…

— Marshall McLuhan

You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The…

— Marshall McLuhan

All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences…

— Marshall McLuhan

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would…

— Marshall McLuhan

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

“The constant broadcast and reception of ghostly images via radio and television, according to this notion, had weakened the sense, particularly among…

— Marshall McLuhan

New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could…

— Marshall McLuhan

Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in…

— Marshall McLuhan

“It is not brains or intelligence that is needed to cope with the problems with Plato and Aristotle and all of their…

— Marshall McLuhan

Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of…

— Marshall McLuhan

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds

— Marshall McLuhan

The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

— Marshall McLuhan

At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.

— Marshall McLuhan

All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical.

— Marshall McLuhan

We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.

— Marshall McLuhan

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

— Marshall McLuhan

Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.

— Marshall McLuhan

“The job of art is not to store moments of experience but to explore environments that are otherwise invisible. Art is not…

— Marshall McLuhan

The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of…

— Marshall McLuhan