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“Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.”

Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 102

“New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.”

Arts in society, Volume 3, 1964, p. 240
1960s

“All media exists to invest our lives with artificial perception and arbitrary values.”

Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 199

“Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.”

Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 43

“To the blind all things are sudden. (p. 41)”

1960s, Counterblast (1969)

“Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.”

Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 55

“It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter.”

(1957) from "Classroom Without Walls", Explorations Vol. 7, 1957; reprinted in Explorations in Communication ed. E. Carpenter & M. McLuhan, (Boston: Beacon, 1960); and again in McLuhan: Hot and Cool ed. G. E. Stearn (NY: Dial, 1967).
1960s, Hot & Cool (1967)

“Privacy invasion is now one of biggest knowledge industries.”

Source: 1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970), p. 24

“Language is a form of organized stutter.”

Interview with John Lennon, December 1969, CBS Television
1960s

“Language alone includes all the senses in interplay at all times.”

Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 253

“The comic strip: upholder of Homeric culture.”

Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p.19