List of Marshall McLuhan Quotes

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Marshall McLuhan
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In a cool medium, the audience is an active constituent of the viewing or listening experience. a girl wearing open-mesh silk stockings or glasses is inherently cool and sensual because the eye acts as a surrogate hand in filling in the low-definition image thus engendered. which is why boys make passes at girls who wear glasses.
Girl Eye Boys
Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.
Space Acoustics Form
The space of early greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word.
Space Greek Utterance
All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical.
Media Psychics Faculty
The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.
Men Tasks Figures
The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure.
Movie Creativity Media
The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.
Time Culture Mediums
Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.
Time Space Principles
North americans have a peculiar bias. they go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.
Home Peculiar Social
Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar
Design Patriotism Typography
The user of the electric light - or a hammer, or a language, or a book - is the content. as such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. it is the metamorphosis that i consider the message.
Book Light Hammers
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 for antiseptics.
Technology Media Body
  • Born: July 21, 1911
  • Died: December 31, 1980
  • Occupation: Philosopher
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