The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message — 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
In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic… — 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
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
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 subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the… — 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
The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
In a cool medium, the audience is an active constituent of the viewing or listening experience. A girl wearing open-mesh silk stockings… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV… — 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
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
