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1911–1980 Canada

Herbert Marshall McLuhan (21 July 1911 – 31 December 1980) was a Canadian philosopher, futurist, and communications theorist.

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Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos – resonant utterance or word.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.

Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

Tactility is the space of the interval; acoustic space is spherical and resonant.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

The field of 'information theory' began by using the old hardware paradigm of transportation of data from point to point.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

Formal logic and the logical syllogism encapsulate connectedness in reasoning.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

To say that a body or its gravitational field 'bends in space' in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

Prolonged mimesis of the alphabet and its fragmenting properties produced a new dominant mode of perception and then of culture.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.

The culture-heroes of preliteracy and postliteracy alike are robots.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

Left hemisphere industrialism has blinded the Chinese to the effects of our alphabet: pattern recognition is in the right hemisphere.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

New media are new languages, their grammar and syntax yet unknown.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

The audience, as ground, shapes and controls the work of art.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

The media have substituted themselves for the older world.

There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

With [Francis] Bacon, Vico continuously asserts the claims of grammar as true science precisely because it has not yielded to specialism and method.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Marshall McLuhan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.