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Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.
When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.
The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
The artists of our culture, 'the antennae of the race,' had tuned in to the new ground and begun exploring discontinuity and simultaneity.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer.
Language is a form of organized stutter.
When Coleridge said that all men are born either Platonists or Aristotelians, he was saying that all men tend to be either acoustic or visual in their sensory bias.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.
Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.
Try not to have Emily exposed to hours and hours of TV. It is a vile drug which permeates the nervous system, especially in the young.
It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter.
Hot & Cool (1967)
All words at every level of prose and poetry and all devices of language and speech derive their meaning from figure
ground relation.
The discarnate TV user lives in a world between fantasy and dream, and is in a typically hypnotic state, which is the ultimate form and level of participation.
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)