North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch. — 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
The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for… — 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
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide… — 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
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps… — 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
If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and… — 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
