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Letter "M" » Marshall McLuhan Quotes
«The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
imposed, patterns, revulsion
«Real news is bad news.»
«The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.»
«The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye; clothing, an extension of the skin, electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
circuitry, The Skin, The wheel
«In Tetrad form, the artefact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
artefact, bur, logo, Logos, not neutral, passive, tetrad
«Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
aims, aspirations, collective, electronic, endeavors, handicraft, handicrafts, ideally, programmed
«The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
numbed, numbing, numbs, recovers
«The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contacts painful and revolting»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
eye contact, intercellular, microscopic
«When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.»
«Today the business of business is becoming the constant invention of new business.»
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