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Letter "M" » Marshall McLuhan Quotes
«Acoustic space has the basic character of a sphere whose focus or centre is simultaneously everywhere and whose margin is nowhere...»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Space
| Keywords:
acoustic, centre, simultaneously
«At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.»
«By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
alphabet, container, containers, formation, phonemic
«Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
A.D., ad agency, agencies, repositories, repository, The Classics
«Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
agencies, congenial, infallibly, sixteenth, sixteenth century
«Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.»
«If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
age of the, couch, editorial, editorials, nineteenth
«One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.»
«North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.»
«It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
mitigate, mitigated, mitigates, unimpeded
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