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“It is perhaps typical of very creative minds that they hit very large nails not quite on the head.”

Quote by Marshall McLuhan

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Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan was a renowned Canadian philosopher, communication theorist, and media theorist whose theories had a profound impact on modern media and communication technologies. His famous 'The Medium is the Message' theory, among others, has influenced the fields of advertising, film, television, and the internet. more

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“If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.”

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Book:Letters of Marshall McLuhan

Source: Letters of Marshall McLuhan

“Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he [Jimmy Carter] puts nostalgia in its place.”

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“Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.”

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“Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.”

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“The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication...is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts.”

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“The mother tongue is propaganda.”

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Book:Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication

Source: Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication

“The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.”

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Book:Marshall McLuhan: Roles, masks and performances

Source: Marshall McLuhan: Roles, masks and performances

“The user of the electric light - or a hammer, or a language, or a book - is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message.”

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“Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground - situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks.”

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“Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.”

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Author:Marshall McLuhan