Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CCwas a Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual. His work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory, as well as having practical applications in the advertising and television industries. He was educated at the University of Manitoba and Cambridge University and began his teaching career as a Professor of English at several universities in the U.S. and Canada, before moving to the University of Toronto where he would remain for the...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 July 1911
CityEdmonton, Canada
CountryCanada
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
All advertising advertises advertising.