1. Citations
  2. Auteurs
  3. Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan citations
Page 7

Herbert Marshall McLuhan, né le 21 juillet 1911 à Edmonton et mort le 31 décembre 1980 à Toronto, est un intellectuel canadien. Professeur de littérature anglaise et théoricien de la communication, il est un des fondateurs des études contemporaines sur les médias.

Étudiant les transformations culturelles apportées par l'imprimerie dans le monde occidental, il en arrive à la conclusion que le média de communication peut avoir, à long terme, plus d'importance que le contenu qu'il transmet, car il est une extension des sens et, de ce fait, détermine la façon dont sont abordés le monde et la société. Outre l'imprimerie, McLuhan s'intéresse à l'effet de la radio et tente de prévoir les bouleversements qu'entraînera la télévision. Il anticipe aussi, à certains égards, l'impact de l'ordinateur portable miniaturisé. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. juillet 1911 – 31. décembre 1980
Marshall McLuhan photo
Marshall McLuhan: 417   citations 1   J'aime

Marshall McLuhan Citations

Marshall McLuhan: Citations en anglais

“Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

1970s, The argument: causality in the electric world (1973)

“The portability of the book, like that of the easel-painting, added much to the new culture of individualism.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 233

“The method of the twentieth century is to use not single but multiple models for experimental exploration – the technique of the suspended judgement.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 81

“With [Francis] Bacon, Vico continuously asserts the claims of grammar as true science precisely because it has not yielded to specialism and method.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 220

“While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 52

“America is 100% 18th Century. The 18th century had chucked out the principle of metaphor and analogy — the basic fact that as A is to B so is C to D. AB:CD. It can see AB relations. But relations in four terms are still verboten. This amounts to deep occultation of nearly all human thought for the USA.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Letter to Ezra Pound (21 December 1948)
1940s

“Civilization gives the barbarian or tribal man an eye for an ear and is now at odds with the electronic world.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 30

“The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the old oral cultures, to tribal cohesion and pre-individualist patterns of thought, is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Tyuonyi, Volumes 1-2, 1985, p. 60
1980s

“Current concern with reading and spelling reform steers away from visual to auditory stress.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 54

“The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Mademoiselle: the magazine for the smart young woman, Volume 64, 1966, p. 114
1960s

“Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p.73 of the 1966 Signet paperback edition

“When we invent a new technology, we become cannibals. We eat ourselves alive since these technologies are merely extensions of ourselves. The new environment shaped by electric technology is a cannibalistic one that eats people. To survive one must study the habits of cannibals.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, Hot & Cool (1967), p. 261

“Our senses are not receptors so much as reactors and makers of different modalities of space. Perhaps touch is not just skin contact with things, but the very life of things in the mind.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 256

“Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 225

“Logic is figure without a ground. (p. 241)”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011)

“The alphabet, when pushed to a high degree of abstract visual intensity, became typography. The printed word with its specialist intensity burst the bonds of medieval corporate guilds and monasteries, created extreme individualist patterns of enterprise and monopoly.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 23

“In Chinese, honesty is the figure of a man standing, physically standing, beside his work. That means honesty: a man stands by his work. Two things: figure / ground.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 314

“Another theme of the Wake that helps in the understanding of the paradoxical shift from cliché to archetype is "pastimes are past times". The dominant technologies of one age become the games and pastimes of a later age. In the twentieth century the number of past times that are simultaneously available is so vast as to create cultural anarchy. When all the cultures of the world are simultaneously present, the work of the artist in the elucidation of form takes on new scope and new urgency. Most men are pushed into the artist role. The artist cannot dispense with the principle of doubleness and interplay since this kind of hendiadys-dialogue is essential to the very structure of consciousness, awareness, and autonomy.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1970s, From Cliché to Archetype (1970), p.99

“All of the new media have enriched our perceptions of language and older media. They are to the man-made environment what species are to biology.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 84

“The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos – resonant utterance or word.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 35

“All media are extensions of some human faculty -- psychic or physical.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

1960s, The Medium is the Message (1967)

“We are swiftly moving at present from an era where business was our culture into an era when culture will be our business. Between these poles stand the huge and ambiguous entertainment industries.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 384

“The 4 aspects of each of the media actually constitute the four features of all metaphors. In other words, all human technologies whatever are, in the fullest sense, linguistic outerings, or utterings, of man.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 275

“Blast Sputnik for closing terrestrial nature in a man-made environment that transfers the evolutionary process from biology to technology.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 85

“Literacy remains even now the base and model of all programs of industrial mechanization; but, at the same time, locks the minds and senses of its users in the mechanical and fragmentary matrix that is so necessary to the maintenance of mechanized society.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

1960s, Understanding Media (1964)

“The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

1960s, Understanding Media (1964)

“Today, computers hold out the promise of a means of instant translation of any code or language into any other code or language.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 80

“One of the many effects of television on radio has been to shift radio from an entertainment medium into a kind of nervous information system.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 298

“Native societies did not think of themselves as being in the world as occupants but considered that their rituals created the world and keep it operational.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

College and University Journal, Volumes 6-7, American College Public Relations Association, 1967, p. 3
1960s

“All words at every level of prose and poetry and all devices of language and speech derive their meaning from figure / ground relation.”

Help us translate this quote
Marshall McLuhan

quoted in McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed by W. Terrence Gordon, 2010, p. 167
1980s

Auteurs similaires

André Breton photo
André Breton 309
poète et écrivain français
Thomas Mann photo
Thomas Mann 69
écrivain allemand
Italo Calvino photo
Italo Calvino 3
écrivain italien
Knut Hamsun photo
Knut Hamsun 1
écrivain norvégien
Guillaume Apollinaire photo
Guillaume Apollinaire 33
poète français
Wole Soyinka photo
Wole Soyinka 6
écrivain nigérian
Octavio Paz photo
Octavio Paz 87
poète, essayiste et diplomate mexicain
George Bernard Shaw photo
George Bernard Shaw 15
dramaturge et scénariste irlandais
Imre Kertész photo
Imre Kertész 68
écrivain hongrois
Richard Dawkins photo
Richard Dawkins 8
biologiste et éthologiste britannique