“The most human thing about us is our technology.”
Source: Letters of Marshall McLuhan
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Famous Marshall McLuhan Quotes
“The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.”
“The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word.”
“Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.”
Source: The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century
“Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.”
“It is perhaps typical of very creative minds that they hit very large nails not quite on the head.”
Source: Letters of Marshall McLuhan
“Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.”
“The mother tongue is propaganda.”
Source: Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication
Source: Marshall McLuhan: Roles, masks and performances
“Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.”
Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
“Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.”
Source: The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century
“Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.”
Source: Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication
“I don't want them to believe me, I just want them to think.”
Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects