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

Marshall McLuhan

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.”

Marshall McLuhan

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

“The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 18

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

Marshall McLuhan

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

“The coverage is the war. If there were no coverage, there'd be no war. Yes, the newsmen and the mediamen around the world are actually the fighters, not the soldiers anymore.”

Marshall McLuhan

1970s, Forces interview (1973)

“At no period of human culture have men understood the psychic mechanism involved in invention and technology. (p. 300)”

Marshall McLuhan

1960s, Understanding Media (1964)

“People never remember but the computer never forgets.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 69

“The pre-atomist multisensory void was an animate, pulsating, and moving vibrant interval, neither container nor contained, acoustic space penetrated by tactility.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 34

“Applied knowledge in the Renaissance had to take the form of translation of the auditory into visual terms, of the plastic into retinal form.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 180

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

Marshall McLuhan

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

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

Marshall McLuhan

1960s, Counterblast (1969)

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

Marshall McLuhan

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

“Environments are invisible. Their groundrules, pervasive structure, and overall patterns elude easy perception.”

Marshall McLuhan

1960s, The Medium is the Message (1967)

“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.”

Marshall McLuhan

(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.”

Marshall McLuhan

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

“Audile-tactile space is the space of involvement. We lose "touch" without it. Visual space is the space of detachment.”

Marshall McLuhan

1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)

“We begin again to structure the primordial feelings…from which 3000 years of literacy divorced us. We begin again to live a myth.”

Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 17

“Language is a form of organized stutter.”

Marshall McLuhan

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

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

Marshall McLuhan

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

“The comic strip: upholder of Homeric culture.”

Marshall McLuhan

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