Marshall McLuhan: Frasi in inglese (pagina 16)

Marshall McLuhan era sociologo canadese. Frasi in inglese.
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“Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets beaten into a servile pulp by his own mechanical reflexes, which are constantly busy registering and reacting to the violent stimuli which his big, noisy, kinesthetic environment has provided for his unreflective reception.”

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Eye Appeal, p. 79-80
1950s, The Mechanical Bride (1951)

“The Chinese used the intervals between things as the primary means of getting 'in touch' with situations.”

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Origine: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 77

“The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes.”

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Origine: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 42

“When we put our central nervous system outside us we returned to the primal nomadic state.”

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1990s and beyond, "The Agenbite of Outwit" (1998)

“Although meaningless in a tribal context, numbers and statistics assume mythic and magical qualities of infallibility in literate societies.”

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Origine: 1970s, Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972), p. 114

“The invention of printing did away with anonymity, fostering ideas of literary fame and the habit of considering intellectual effort as private property.”

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Origine: 1960s, The Medium is the Message (1967), p. 122

“Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been…destroyed by sudden environmental change.”

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Letter to Clare Westcott, November 26 1975. Letters of Marshall McLuhan, p. 514
1970s

“All of man's artefacts, whether hardware or software, whether bulldozers or laws of chemistry, are alike linguistic in structure and intent.”

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Origine: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 227

“Since Sputnik, the earth has been wrapped in a dome-like blanket or bubble. Nature ended.”

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1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)

“Try not to have Emily exposed to hours and hours of TV. It is a vile drug which permeates the nervous system, especially in the young.”

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Letter to son Eric McLuhan, regarding one of Eric's daughters, 1976
1970s

“The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation.”

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quoted in "The Prospects of Recording" by Glenn Gould, The Glenn Gould reader, 1984, p. 345
1980s

“Since Sputnik there is no Nature. Nature is an item contained in a man-made environment of satellites and information.”

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1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)

“Formal cause, as logos, incorporates the patterns of side-effects as part of essential nature: tetrads restore poesis and the making process to the study of artefacts.”

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Origine: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 227

“The role of the artist is to create an Anti-environment as a means of perception and adjustment.”

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Origine: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 31

“You don't like those ideas? I got others!”

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full lecture The Medium is the Message 1977 part 1 v3 around 14:23 into ABC TV, Monday Conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImaH51F4HBw&feature=player_embedded
1970s

“Left hemisphere industrialism has blinded the Chinese to the effects of our alphabet: pattern recognition is in the right hemisphere.”

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Origine: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 81

“Newton, and 'proper scientific method' after him, conducted attention to 'continuous description' of experimental phenomena instead of to causes.”

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Origine: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 50

“Even pacifist agitation or the nation-wide fever of big sports competitions acts as a spur to war fever in circumstances like ours. Any kind of excitement or emotion contributes to the possibility of dangerous explosions when the feelings of huge populations are kept inflamed even in peacetime for the sake of the advancement of commerce. Headlines mean street sales. It takes emotion to move merchandise. And wars and rumors of wars are the merchandise and also the emotion of the popular press.”

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Origine: 1950s, The Mechanical Bride (1951), p. 7

“Pornography and obscenity…work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground -- situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks.”

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Letter to Clare Westcott, November 26 1975. Letters of Marshall McLuhan, p. 514
1970s

“It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the hemispheres and of human sensibilities into equilibrium with those grounds.”

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Origine: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 82