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
The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.
Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.
Any breakdown is a breakthrough.
The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.
Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.
Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
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.
Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion...
Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very week identity.
Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
Money is a poor man's credit card.
The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.