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

— Marshall McLuhan The Medium is the Massage (1967)

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Human perception is literally incarnation.

Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

As Innis got more insight he abandoned any mere point of view in his presentation of knowledge.

The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962)

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