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Marshall McLuhan Quotes
«Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
consequence, literacy, schizophrenia
«Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Environment,
Profession and professionals
| Keywords:
amateur, amateurism, anti, critical, environmental, merges, merging, patterns, professionalism, Rules of
«For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
as such, Body Parts, manipulation, manipulations, physical body, recognized, sex act, torture, to seem
«I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Art,
Culture
| Keywords:
dew, distant, Distant Early Warning, early warning system, relied, significant, warning
«Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
artistic, automation, autonomy, educational, electric, electric fire, electric light, employment, grouped, latent, patterns, supplied, supplied with, warmth
«Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in order to exercise an hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
A.D., attended, comical, consciously, consumption, hypnotic, pills, sociologist, sociologists, subliminal
«The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Art,
Environment
| Keywords:
Environments, inheritance, technological, technological innovation
«The media have substituted themselves for the older world. Even if we should wish to recover that older world we can do it only by an intensive study of the ways in which the media have swallowed it.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Media,
Study
| Keywords:
intensive, recover, substituted, swallowed
«New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual o»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Media
| Keywords:
codes, Greeks, new media, patterns, phonetic, set down, Supposing, the Greeks, visual
«Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
emergence, typography, unforeseen