As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the… — 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 global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the… — 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
