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Human perception is literally incarnation.
Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
All words, in every language, are metaphors.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
As Innis got more insight he abandoned any mere point of view in his presentation of knowledge.
The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962)
There is nothing willful or arbitrary about the Innis mode of expression.
The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962)
There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.
In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962)
Innis sacrificed point of view and prestige to his sense of the urgent need for insight.
The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962)
Today we experience, in reverse, what pre-literate man faced with the advent of writing.
A McLuhan Sourcebook (1995)
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode – a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
The Chinese used the intervals between things as the primary means of getting 'in touch' with situations.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)