Marshall McLuhan — Philosophical Quotes

308 quotes · Philosopher, Media Theorist

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Marshall McLuhan Quotes

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Marshall McLuhan

Philosopher, Media Theorist

Philosophical

“Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.”

Mean Technology Stress

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Marshall McLuhan

Philosopher, Media Theorist

Philosophical

“Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.”

Doe Space Photograph

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Philosophical

“Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.”

Men Teacher

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Philosophical

“The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration.”

Use Method

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Philosophical

“A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.”

Book Reading Successful

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Philosophical

“America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.”

Country Usa

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Philosophical

“Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.”

Men Whole

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Philosophical

“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.”

Literature Plot Conscious

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Philosophical

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

Attention Fields Environmental

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Philosophical

“Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing.”

Way Principles Noise

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Philosophical

“The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will take on a totally new meaning under conditions of very rapid movement. It will be an information megalopolis.”

Real Cities Movement

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Philosophical

“In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.”

Ideas Business Labs

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