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Marshall McLuhan Quotes
«Acoustic space has the basic character of a sphere whose focus or centre is simultaneously everywhere and whose margin is nowhere...»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Space
| Keywords:
acoustic, centre, simultaneously
«By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
alphabet, container, containers, formation, phonemic
«Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
A.D., ad agency, agencies, repositories, repository, The Classics
«Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
agencies, congenial, infallibly, sixteenth, sixteenth century
«If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
age of the, couch, editorial, editorials, nineteenth
«One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.»
«It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
mitigate, mitigated, mitigates, unimpeded