With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself.… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The hallucinogenic world, in environmental terms, can be considered as a forlorn effort of man to match the speed of power of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
During the Second War, the U.S.O. sent special issues of the principal American magazines to the Armed Forces, with the ads omitted.… — 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
I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the… — 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
The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot… — 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
What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men. — 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
If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology...… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity. — 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
