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Quotes from Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) — Marshall McLuhan

1911–1980 Canada

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Each tetrad gives the etymology of its subject, as an uttering or outering of the body physical or mental, and provides its anatomy in fourfold exegetical manner.

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

Older cliches are retrieved both as inherent principles that inform the new ground and new awareness, and as archetypal nostalgia figures with transformed meaning in relation to the new ground.

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

The pre-atomist multisensory void was an animate, pulsating, and moving vibrant interval, neither container nor contained, acoustic space penetrated by tactility.

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

It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the hemispheres and of human sensibilities into equilibrium with those grounds.

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

The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature.'

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

Interdeterminacy was a figure-ground problem arising from incongruity between the visual bias of classical science and the new acoustic sensibilities.

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

The dyslexic: Everyman as cubist.

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

We are not Argus-eyed, but Argus-eared.

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.