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Quotes from The Agenbite of Outwit — Marshall McLuhan

1911–1980 Canada

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Man in the electronic age has no possible environment except the globe and no possible occupation except information-gathering.

The Agenbite of Outwit (1998)

Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.

The Agenbite of Outwit (1998)

When we put our central nervous system outside us we returned to the primal nomadic state.

The Agenbite of Outwit (1998)

By simply moving information and brushing information against information, any medium whatever creates vast wealth.

The Agenbite of Outwit (1998)

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

The Agenbite of Outwit (1998)

As Narcissus fell in love with an outering (projection, extension) of himself, man seems invariably to fall in love with the newest gadget or gimmick that is merely an extension of his own body.

The Agenbite of Outwit (1998)

We have become like the most primitive Palaeolithic man, once more global wanderers, but information gatherers rather than food gatherers. From now on the source of food, wealth and life itself will be information.

The Agenbite of Outwit (1998)

The ways of thinking implanted by electronic culture are very different from those fostered by print culture. Since the Renaissance most methods and procedures have strongly tended towards stress on the visual organization of knowledge.

The Agenbite of Outwit (1998)

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