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Jack Paar mentioned that he once had said to a young friend, "Why do you kids use 'cool' to mean 'hot'?" The friend replied, "Because you folks used up the word 'hot' before we came along."
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Marshall McLuhan |
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The formula for this brand of "historical" writing is to put the public on the inside; to let them feel the palpitations of royal and imperial lovers and to overhear their lispings and cooings. It can be argued that a man has to live somewhere, and that if his own time is so cut up by rapid change that he can't find a cranny big enough to relax in, then he must betake himself to the past. That is certainly one motive in the production of hi..
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time
fiction
past
truth
relaxation
past-and-present
rapid-change
historical-fiction
nostalgia
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Marshall McLuhan |
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In the "Republic," Plato vigorously attacked the oral, poetized form as a vehicle for communicating knowledge. He pleaded for a more precise method of communication and classification ("The Ideas"), one which would favor the investigation of facts, principles of reality, human nature, and conduct. What the Greeks meant by "poetry" was radically different from what we mean by poetry. Their "poetic" expression was a product of a collective ps..
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poetry
media-criticism
the-republic
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Marshall McLuhan |
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Innumerable confusions and a profound feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transitions. Our "Age of Anxiety" is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools--with yesterday's concepts."
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Marshall McLuhan |
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Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.
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Marshall McLuhan |
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Arquimedes dijo una vez: <> Hoy en dia, habria senalado nuestros medios de comunicacion electronicos y habria dicho: <>. Pero una vez que hemos entregado nuestros sentidos y nuestros sistemas nerviosos a las manipulaciones de quienes tratan de sacar provecho aniquilando nuestros ojos, oidos, nervios y cerebro, el resultado sera que ya no tendremos derechos.
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Marshall McLuhan |
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That outering or uttering of sense which is language and speech is a tool which "made it possible for man to accumulate experience and knowledge in a form that made easy transmission and maximum use possible."
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Marshall McLuhan |
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Television completes the cycle of the human sensorium. With the omnipresent ear and the moving eye, we have abolished writing, the specialized acoustic-visual metaphor that established the dynamics of Western civilization.
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Marshall McLuhan |
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The Newtonian God--the God who made a clock-like universe, wound it, and withdrew--died a long time ago. This is what Nietzsche meant and this is the God who is being observed.
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Marshall McLuhan |
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No se puede vivir en un mundo interior del circuito electrico y mantener la letra escrita. La electricidad destruye la individualidad. (...) El individuo privado no se siente comodo en condiciones electricas. Esta demasiado cercano a los demas individuos y pierde su identidad. Es un hombre en la multitud, no es nadie, y debe luchar para demostrar que es alguien. Por tanto, a mas electricidad mayor violencia. La gente no lucha porque odie a ..
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Marshall McLuhan |
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Human perception is literally incarnation.
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Marshall McLuhan |
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Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.
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Marshall McLuhan |
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New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.
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Marshall McLuhan |
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There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
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Marshall McLuhan |
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The mother tongue is propaganda.
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Marshall McLuhan |
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Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.
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Marshall McLuhan |
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Language is a form of organized stutter.
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Marshall McLuhan |
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Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. (p. 26)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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Literacy affects the physiology as well as the psychic life of the African. (p. 38)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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Non-literate societies cannot see films or photos without much training. (p. 41)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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African audiences cannot accept our passive consumer role in the presence of film. (p. 44)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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Current concern with reading and spelling reform steers away from visual to auditory stress. (p. 54)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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The Homeric hero becomes a split-man as he assumes an individual ego. (p. 58)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space. (p. 73)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic. (p. 84)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud. (p. 94)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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The manuscript shaped medieval literary conventions at all levels. (p. 99)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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The medieval student had to be paleographer, editor, and publisher of the authors he read. (p. 109)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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For the oral man the literal text contains all possible levels of meaning. (p. 126)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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Scribal culture could have neither authors nor publics such as were created by typography. (p. 149)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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The divorce of poetry and music was first reflected by the printed page. (p. 227)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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Typography extended its character to the regulation and fixation of languages. (p. 229)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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Cervantes confronted typographic man in the figure of Don Quixote. (p. 242)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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Typography extended its character to the regulation and fixations of languages. (p. 260)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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Nobody ever made a grammatical error in a non-literate society. (p. 271)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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Typography cracked the voices of silence. (p. 283)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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It is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behaviour.
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Marshall McLuhan |
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It is the medium that shapes and controls the scale and form of human association and action. (p. 9)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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War is never anything less than accelerated technological change. (p. 102)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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Money is a corporate image depending on society for its institutional status. (p. 133)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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All media exists to invest our lives with artificial perception and arbitrary values. (p. 199)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message. (p. 8)
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Marshall McLuhan |
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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
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Marshall McLuhan |
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The book is a private confessional form that provides a "point of view."
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