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 Copy Share Image
The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician,… — 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
Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Radio affects most intimately, person-to-perso n, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously.… — 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
The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
"Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new… — 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
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