Author: Marshall McLuhan

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The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

- Marshall McLuhan

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

- Marshall McLuhan

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

- Marshall McLuhan

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

- Marshall McLuhan

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

- Marshall McLuhan

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

- Marshall McLuhan

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

- Marshall McLuhan

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

- Marshall McLuhan

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

- Marshall McLuhan

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