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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)
The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.
After childhood, the senses specialize via the channels of dominant technologies and social weaponries.
The newspaper is a corporate symbolist poem, environmental and invisible, as poem.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
As the totem pole is tied to the lineality of the missionaries' Bible, so the igloo was made possible by the primus stove.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
The telegraph press mosaic is acoustic space as much as an electric circus.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
The hardware world tends to move into software form at the speed of light.
The book is a private confessional form that provides a “point of view.”
Understanding Media (1964)
It is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behaviour.
Understanding Media (1964)
Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been...destroyed by sudden environmental change.
The Eskimo, like any pre-literate, leaps easily from the Paleolithic stone age to the electric age, by-passing the Neolithic specialism.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
The young are really the heirs to a generation of incompetence.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
Cartoons drove the photo back to myth and dream screen.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
Instead of scurrying into a corner and wailing about what media are doing to us, one should charge straight ahead and kick them in the electrodes.
Color is not so much a visual as a tactile medium.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
Native societies did not think of themselves as being in the world as occupants but considered that their rituals created the world and keep it operational.
Invention is the mother of all necessities.
The argument: causality in the electric world (1973)
The mother tongue is propaganda.
Since Sputnik there is no Nature. Nature is an item contained in a man-made environment of satellites and information.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)