Marshall McLuhan Citations
Marshall McLuhan: Citations en anglais
“Omnipresence has become an ordinary human dimension.”
1970s, Forces interview (1973)
“Bless Madison Ave for restoring the magical art of the cavemen to suburbia.”
Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 130
“My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age”
Letter to Robert Fulford, 1964. Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p. 300
1960s
Contexte: My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 103
“In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.”
"Innovation is obsolete", Evergreen review, Volume 15, Issues 86-94, Grove Press, 1971, p. 64
1970s
“The media have substituted themselves for the older world.”
"Education, Language, and Media". Cycle 7, 1973, p. 232
1970s
1970s, The argument: causality in the electric world (1973)
Source: 1970s, Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972), p. 8
“Languages are environments to which the child related synesthetically.”
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 166
“Cartoons drove the photo back to myth and dream screen.”
1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 15
“Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.”
Yeats studies, Issue 2, Irish University Press, 1972, p. 135
1970s
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 74
Source: 1970s, Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972), p. 152
Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 99
"Violence in the media." Canadian Forum. Volume 56, 1976, p. 9
1970s
“One touch of nature makes the whole world tin.”
1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 272
Source: 1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970), p.66
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 177
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 21
“In the electric age we wear all mankind as our skin.”
Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 47
“The Greeks encountered the confusion of tongues when numbers invaded Euclidean space.”
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 203
“The book is a private confessional form that provides a “point of view.””
1960s, Understanding Media (1964)
“At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.”
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 109
