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Media Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
- The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature.
- Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new…
- A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress…
- The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard…
- All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave…
- Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.
- The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an…
- Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion...
- You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type…
- ... Their power to see environments as they really are.
- We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.
- New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake…
- Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.
- Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture…
- The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.
- Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in…
- In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.
- In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for…
- The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.
- Education is civil defence against media fallout.
- The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the…
- All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.
- All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
- The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension…
- Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
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