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Form Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
- If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might…
- In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body…
- At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.
- The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our…
- I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time…
- Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search…
- We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.
- Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways…
- The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.
- Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.
- The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.
- Language is a form of organized stutter.
- All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.
- Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
- In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
- The artist is engaged constantly in building anti-environments. (And, by the way, the Courtly Love people were engaged in making love itself into an art…
- Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
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- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. — Julian Assange
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood
- Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think… — Margaret Atwood
- I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just… — Margaret Atwood