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
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
Affluence creates poverty.
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
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.
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
Jokes are grievances.
The medium is the message.