Skip to content

Marshall McLuhan on Writing

1911–1980 Canada

← All quotes by Marshall McLuhan

4 quotes

Today we experience, in reverse, what pre-literate man faced with the advent of writing.

A McLuhan Sourcebook (1995)

By surpassing writing, we have regained our wholeness, not on a national or cultural but cosmic plane.

Counterblast (1969)

Writing turned a spotlight on the high, dim Sierras of speech; writing was the visualization of acoustic space. It lit up the dark. (p. 14)

Counterblast (1969)

The Age of Writing has passed. We must invent a new metaphor, restructure our thoughts and feelings. (p. 14)

Counterblast (1969)

Attribution

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