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• I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Blow, Order

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Tasks, Figures

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p. 114, 1988.

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• North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Home, Peculiar, Social

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• Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Time, Space, Principles

  "Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan)". Book by Marshall McLuhan (p. 43), 1988.

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• The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Movie, Creativity, Media

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mirrors, Moments, Status Quo

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Technology, Men

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them.

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  Media, Doe, Shapes

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Nervous, Electricity, Human Experience

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• Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Environmental, Development

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Media, Environment

  "The Care and Feeding of Communication Innovation". Dinner Address to Conference on 8 mm Sound Film and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, November 8, 1961.

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• One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)

  Marshall McLuhan

  Responsibility, Mold, Welfare

  Marshall McLuhan (1969). “The interior landscape: the literary criticism of Marshall McLuhan, 1943-1962”

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• All media work us over completely.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Cultural Change

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Media, Body

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Thinking, Force

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• 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.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Favors, Obscenity, Figures

  "Letters of Marshall McLuhan" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 514), 1987.

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• For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Suicide, Sex, Body

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• Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Moments, Obsolescence

  Yeats Studies: An International Journal, Issue 2 (p. 135), 1972.

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• Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

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  Men, Division Of Labor, Whole

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

  Marshall McLuhan

  Design, Patriotism, Typography

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• We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Responsible, Involved

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Information, Environment

  Marshall McLuhan (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.119, Routledge

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• Einstein pronounced the doom of continuous or 'rational' space, and the way was made clear for Picasso and the Marx Brothers and Mad magazine.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Brother, Space, Mad

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• The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Artist, Criminals, Social

  "Marshall McLuhan, Author, Dies; Declared 'Medium Is the Message'" by Alden Whitman, www.nytimes.com. January 1, 1981.

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• What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Perception, Specialists

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