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Quotes from The Medium is the Massage — Marshall McLuhan

1911–1980 Canada

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All media are extensions of some human faculty -- psychic or physical.

The Medium is the Massage (1967)

Media, by altering the environment, evoke in us unique ratios of sense perception...When these ratios change, men change.

The Medium is the Massage (1967)

Electric circuitry profoundly involves men with one another. Information pours upon us, instantaneously and continuously.

The Medium is the Massage (1967)

Youth instinctively understand the present environment – the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.

The Medium is the Massage (1967)

Environments are invisible. Their groundrules, pervasive structure, and overall patterns elude easy perception.

The Medium is the Massage (1967)

We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

The Medium is the Massage (1967)

Art is whatever you can get away with.

The Medium is the Massage (1967)

There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. [A chapter sub-heading attributed by McLuhan to Alfred North Whitehead]

The Medium is the Massage (1967)

The invention of printing did away with anonymity, fostering ideas of literary fame and the habit of considering intellectual effort as private property. (p. 122)

The Medium is the Massage (1967)

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