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Quotes from A McLuhan Sourcebook — Marshall McLuhan

1911–1980 Canada

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

A McLuhan Sourcebook (1995)

The unformulated message of an assembly of news items from every quarter of the globe is that the world today is one city. All war is civil war. All suffering is our own.

A McLuhan Sourcebook (1995)

The media themselves are the avant-garde of our society. Avant-garde no longer exists in painting, music and poetry, it's the media themselves.

A McLuhan Sourcebook (1995)

We now live in a technologically prepared environment that blankets the earth itself. The humanly contrived environment of electric information and power has begun to take precedence over the old environment of "nature." Nature, as it were, begins to be the content of our technology.

A McLuhan Sourcebook (1995)

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