Marshall McLuhan: Frasi in inglese (pagina 17)

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“History as she is harped. Rite words in rote order. (pp. 108-109)”

1960s, The Medium is the Message (1967)

“The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.”

"Roles, Masks, and Performances", New Literary History, Vol. 2, No. 3, Performances in Drama, the Arts, and Society (Spring, 1971), p. 520
1970s

“My method is vertical rather than horizontal so the scenery does not change but the texture does.”

Letter to The Listener October 1971, Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p. 318
1970s

“Tactility is space of the interval.”

1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)

“My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age”

Letter to Robert Fulford, 1964. Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p. 300
1960s
Contesto: My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

“In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.”

"Innovation is obsolete", Evergreen review, Volume 15, Issues 86-94, Grove Press, 1971, p. 64
1970s

“The media have substituted themselves for the older world.”

"Education, Language, and Media". Cycle 7, 1973, p. 232
1970s

“I don't explain—I explore.”

1960s, Hot & Cool (1967)