Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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Someone asked me if I really believed there was life after death. I replied: Do you really believe there is any life before death?
The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
The only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions
The medium is the message because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.
It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.
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 old world at will.
The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.
All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.
Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.
What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.
I satirize at all times, and my hyperboles are as nothing compared to the events to which they refer.
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.
The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.
Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.
Einstein pronounced the doom of continuous or 'rational' space, and the way was made clear for Picasso and the Marx Brothers and Mad magazine.
Radio affects most intimately, person-to-perso n, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener
Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.
All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.
The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.
In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.
The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.
When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.
Arists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.
To say that a body or its gravitational field 'bends in space' in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms.
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.
If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.
Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.