Marshall McLuhan Citations
Marshall McLuhan: Citations en anglais
“I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.”
Interview: Tom Wolfe, TVOntario, August 1970
1970s
Source: 1970s, From Cliché to Archetype (1970), p.9-10
“For the oral man the literal text contains all possible levels of meaning.”
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 126
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 200
Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 8
“There are no connections in resonant space. There are only interfaces and metamorphoses.”
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 75
1990s and beyond, "The Agenbite of Outwit" (1998)
“Without an anti-environment, all environments are invisible.”
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 33
Source: 1960s, The Medium is the Message (1967), p. 93
1960s, The Medium is the Message (1967)
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 97
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 99
“War is never anything less than accelerated technological change.”
Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 102
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 174
Source: 1970s, Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972), p. 6
Source: 1960s, Through the Vanishing Point (1968), p.240
“A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.”
Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 245
“Great ages of innovation are the ages in which entire cultures are junked or scrapped.”
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 309
“The most human thing about us is our technology.”
Man and the future of organizations, Volume 5, School of Business Administration, Georgia State University, 1974, p. 19
1970s
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 61
Letter to Ezra Pound (21 December 1948)
1940s
“Prose is private drama; poetry is corporate drama.”
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 275
“Primitivism has become the vulgar cliche of much modern art and speculation.”
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 77
Letter to The Listener October 1971, Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p. 443
1970s
