Marshall McLuhan Quotes
1911–1980 Canada
Herbert Marshall McLuhan (21 July 1911 – 31 December 1980) was a Canadian philosopher, futurist, and communications theorist.
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Also known as: McLuhan, Marshall, Mcluhan
348 quotes
Art is anything you can get away with.
Art is whatever you can get away with.
Tactility is space of the interval.
Casting my perils before swains.
Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology. (p. 245)
It is the medium that shapes and controls the scale and form of human association and action. (p. 9)
The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture. (p. 168)
Every mode of technology is a reflex of our most intimate psychological experience. (p. 171)
Literacy affects the physiology as well as the psychic life of the African. (p. 38)
For the oral man the literal text contains all possible levels of meaning. (p. 126)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Marshall McLuhan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.