Marshall McLuhan Citations
Marshall McLuhan: Citations en anglais
1970s, The Education of Mike McManus, TVOntario, December 28 1977
“Human perception is literally incarnation.”
"Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters", in Christian Humanism in Letters, The McAuley Lectures (1954), p. 49-67
1950s
“At the speed of light there is no sequence; everything happens at the same instant.”
1970s, Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder (1976)
Source: 1970s, From Cliché to Archetype (1970), p.77
“Each new technology is a reprogramming of sensory life.”
Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 33
“All advertising advertises advertising – no ad has its meaning alone.”
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 145
Source: 1990s and beyond, A McLuhan Sourcebook (1995), p. 276
“Language is a sense, like touch. (p. 271)”
1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011)
“The typographic lore of school children points to the gap between the scribal and typographic man.”
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 103
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 105
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 223
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 113
“Headlines are icons, not literature.”
Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 5
Source: 1970s, Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972), p. 106
Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 267
“The great sixteenth century divorce between art and science came with accelerated calculators.”
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 205
Letter to Clare Westcott, November 26 1975. Letters of Marshall McLuhan, p. 514
1970s
“Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.”
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 231
Source: 1950s, The Mechanical Bride (1951), p. 21
from a 1960 report to the National Educational Broadcasters Association, quoted in Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger by Philip Marchand, p. 148
1960s
“Tactility is the space of the interval; acoustic space is spherical and resonant.”
1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
“Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.”
Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 36
“The Homeric hero becomes a split-man as he assumes an individual ego.”
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 58
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 226
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 127
“Bless advertising art for its pictorial vitality and verbal creativity.”
Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 18
“There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.”
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 60
“Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.”
Access, Issues 165-176, National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting, 1984, p. xxiii
1980s
Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 204
