Marshall McLuhan: Trending quotes (page 14)

“Tactility is the space of the interval; acoustic space is spherical and resonant.”

Marshall McLuhan

1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

“Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 36

“The Homeric hero becomes a split-man as he assumes an individual ego.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 58

“Print, in turning the vernaculars into mass media, or closed systems, created the uniform, centralizing forces of modern nationalism.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 226

“The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 127

Law

“The Concept of Dread, by Soren Kierkegaard, appeared in 1844, first year of the commercial telegraph…It mentions the telegraph as a reason for dread and nowness or existenz.”

Marshall McLuhan

1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)

Appearance

“Bless advertising art for its pictorial vitality and verbal creativity.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 18

Art

“There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 60

“Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.”

Marshall McLuhan

Access, Issues 165-176, National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting, 1984, p. xxiii
1980s

Speed

“The press is a group confessional form that provides communal participation. The book is a private confessional form that provides a “point of view.””

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 204

Books , Communication

“Does the interiorization of media such as letters alter the ratio among our senses and change mental processes?”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 28

Sense , Change

“When the evolutionary process shifts from biology to software technology the body becomes the old hardware environment. The human body is now a probe, a laboratory for experiments.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970), p. 180

“All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.”

Marshall McLuhan

1970s, The Education of Mike McManus, TVOntario, December 28 1977

“A fixed point of view becomes possible with print and ends the image as a plastic organism.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 144

“The uniformity and repeatability of print created the “political arithmetic” of the seventeenth century and the “hedonistic calculus” of the eighteenth.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 237

“The field of 'information theory' began by using the old hardware paradigm of transportation of data from point to point.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 111

“Philosophy was as naive as science in its unconscious acceptance of the assumptions or dynamic of typography.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 278

Science

“Violence is the effort to maintain and restore a weakened psyche.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 377

Effort

“The unique innovation of the phonetic alphabet released the Greeks from the universal acoustic spill of tribal societies.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 70

Universe

“By simply moving information and brushing information against information, any medium whatever creates vast wealth.”

Marshall McLuhan

1990s and beyond, "The Agenbite of Outwit" (1998)

Wealth