Marshall McLuhan
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
— Marshall McLuhan
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
— Marshall McLuhan
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
— Marshall McLuhan
The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely "well-adjusted", he cannot go along with currents and trends. A strange bond often exists between antisocial types in their power to see environments as they really are. This need to interface, to confront environments with a certain antisocial power is manifest in the famous story "The Emperor's New Clothes".
— Marshall McLuhan
The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.
— Marshall McLuhan
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
— Marshall McLuhan
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
— Marshall McLuhan
The wheel… is an extension of the foot. The book… is an extension of the eye… Clothing, an extension of the skin… Electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system.
— Marshall McLuhan
To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.
— Marshall McLuhan
Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog.
— Marshall McLuhan
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