Marshall McLuhan: Frasi in inglese (pagina 9)

Marshall McLuhan era sociologo canadese. Frasi in inglese.
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“The percept takes priority of the concept.”

Letter to Edward T. Hall, 1971, Letters of Marshall McLuhan, p. 397
1970s

“The sociologist permits himself to see only what is acceptable to his colleagues.”

Origine: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 370

“Bacon's Adam is a medieval mystic and Milton's a trade union organizer.”

Origine: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 214

“Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.”

Origine: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 71

“The culture-heroes of preliteracy and postliteracy alike are robots.”

Origine: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 79

“Computers can do better than ever what needn’t be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.”

Origine: 1970s, Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972), p. 109

“If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.”

To Wilfred Watson, October 6 1965. Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p. 325
1960s

“The sculptural qualities of the image dim down the purely personal identity.”

Origine: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 369

“By electricity we have not been driven out of our senses so much as our senses have been driven out of us.”

Origine: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 375

“The magic of the cave image lies in its being, not in its being seen. The symbolic does not refer. It is.”

Origine: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 350

“People don't actually read newspapers. They step into them every morning like a hot bath.”

Origine: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 184