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The present is always invisible because it's environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.
My method is vertical rather than horizontal so the scenery does not change but the texture does.
The step from the age of Typographic Man to the age of Graphic Man was taken with the invention of photography.
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964)
If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.
The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
Understanding Media (1964)
One touch of nature makes the whole world tin.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
The percept takes priority of the concept.
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)
The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces.
One of the things that happens at the speed of light is that people lose their goals in life. So what takes the place of goals and objectives? Well, role-playing is coming in very fast.
Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.
Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972)
You don't like those ideas? I got others!
The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation.
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)
At the speed of light there is no sequence; everything happens at the same instant.
Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder (1976)
Man in the electronic age has no possible environment except the globe and no possible occupation except information-gathering.
The Agenbite of Outwit (1998)
All media are extensions of some human faculty -- psychic or physical.
The Medium is the Massage (1967)
The public has yet to see TV as TV. Broadcasters have no awareness of its potential. The movie people are just beginning to get a grasp on film.