Marshall McLuhan Citations
Marshall McLuhan: Citations en anglais
“Typography extended its character to the regulation and fixations of languages.”
Variante: Typography extended its character to the regulation and fixation of languages. (p. 229)
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 260
“The only cool PR is provided by one's enemies. They toil incessantly and for free.”
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1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)
Source: 1950s, The Mechanical Bride (1951), p. 7
“Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.”
1990s and beyond, "The Agenbite of Outwit" (1998)
“Literacy affects the physiology as well as the psychic life of the African.”
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 38
“The divorce of poetry and music was first reflected by the printed page.”
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 227
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 154
1970s, From Cliché to Archetype (1970)
“The young are really the heirs to a generation of incompetence.”
1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)
“The percept takes priority of the concept.”
Letter to Edward T. Hall, 1971, Letters of Marshall McLuhan, p. 397
1970s
“The sociologist permits himself to see only what is acceptable to his colleagues.”
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 370
“Bacon's Adam is a medieval mystic and Milton's a trade union organizer.”
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 214
“Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.”
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 71
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 146
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 21
“The culture-heroes of preliteracy and postliteracy alike are robots.”
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 79
Source: 1970s, Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972), p. 109
Source: 1970s, Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972), p. 25
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 193
To Wilfred Watson, October 6 1965. Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p. 325
1960s
“The sculptural qualities of the image dim down the purely personal identity.”
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 369
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 167
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 47
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 375
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 350
“People don't actually read newspapers. They step into them every morning like a hot bath.”
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 184
