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Way Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
- Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with…
- The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.
- The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a…
- Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and…
- I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just to sit and…
- 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…
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