“History as she is harped. Rite words in rote order. (pp. 108-109)”
1960s, The Medium is the Message (1967)
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"A Last Look at the Tube." New York Magazine, 17 March 1978, p. 45-48
1970s
Origine: 1970s, Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972), p. 152
"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
“Scribal culture could have neither authors nor publics such as were created by typography.”
Origine: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 149
Origine: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 17
Origine: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 49
“Tactility is space of the interval.”
1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)
Origine: 1970s, Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972), p. 47
“Omnipresence has become an ordinary human dimension.”
1970s, Forces interview (1973)
“Bless Madison Ave for restoring the magical art of the cavemen to suburbia.”
Origine: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 130
“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.
Origine: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 103
“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"Innovation is obsolete", Evergreen review, Volume 15, Issues 86-94, Grove Press, 1971, p. 64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
1970s, The argument: causality in the electric world (1973)