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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The divorce of poetry and music was first reflected by the printed page. (p. 227)
The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962)
The Greek “point of view” in both art and chronology has little in common with ours but was much like that of the Middle Ages. (p. 64)
The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962)
Print altered not only the spelling and grammar but the accentuation and inflection of languages, and made “bad grammar” possible. (p. 263)
The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962)
The “interface” of the Renaissance was the meeting of medieval pluralism and modern homogeneity and mechanism – a formula for blitz and metamorphosis. (p. 161)
The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962)
The invention of printing did away with anonymity, fostering ideas of literary fame and the habit of considering intellectual effort as private property. (p. 122)
The Medium is the Massage (1967)
Until writing was invented, we lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, the dark of the mind, the world of emotion, primordial intuition, terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. (p. 13)
Counterblast (1969)
The Age of Writing has passed. We must invent a new metaphor, restructure our thoughts and feelings. (p. 14)
Counterblast (1969)
The photograph has reversed the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. ... The world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other medium.
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964)