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The McLuhan Institute @McLinstitute

6 hours ago

“Going along with the total and, perhaps, motivated ignorance of man-made environments, is the failure of philosophers and psychologists in general to notice that our senses are not passive receptors of experience.” Marshall McLuhan ‘Identity, Technology, and War’ 1970

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The McLuhan Institute @McLinstitute

3 days ago

“As the speed of information increases, the tendency is for politics to move away from representation and delegation of constituents toward immediate involvement of the entire community in the central acts of decision.” Marshall McLuhan ‘Understanding Media’ 1964

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The McLuhan Institute @McLinstitute

3 days ago

“For the past century, the artist has been our only navigator in social and political terms. The models which he makes are not wishful dreams that money can buy but urgent factual instructions of the means of avoiding disaster.” Marshall McLuhan ‘Ryerson Media Experiment’ 1960

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Andrew McLuhan @amicusadastra

3 days ago

It’s actually crazy that Understanding Media isn’t required reading and study at some level of school, at least in Canada.

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The McLuhan Institute @McLinstitute

3 days ago

“I think a great deal of the confusion and misery of our time is related to the fact that people are still trying to find goals in a world that is moving so fast that no possible goal can remain in focus for ten seconds.” Marshall McLuhan ‘McLuhan is the message’ CBC, 1967

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The McLuhan Institute @McLinstitute

3 days ago

“…if you don’t understand these everyday things that are an absolutely basic part of our lives, it’s rather futile to be teaching Wordsworth and Matthew Arnold. If you can’t even grasp the nature of your own world, why spend your time studying someone else’s world?” MM 1967

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Andrew McLuhan @amicusadastra

2 weeks ago

media ecology will eventually be seen to be as existentially necessary as natural ecology

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The McLuhan Institute @McLinstitute

2 weeks ago

“The extreme bias and distortion of our sense-lives by our technology would seem to be a fact that we prefer to ignore in our daily lives.” Marshall McLuhan ‘The Photograph: The Brothel-Without-Walls.’ 1964

Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369

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The McLuhan Institute @McLinstitute

2 weeks ago

“Obsolescence is not the end of anything; it is the beginning of aesthetics, the cradle of taste, of art, of eloquence and of slang. That is, the cultural midden-heap of cast off clichés and obsolescent forms is the matrix of all innovation." M+E McLuhan 'Laws of Media:...’ 1988

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The McLuhan Institute @McLinstitute

3 weeks ago

“The environments set up by different media are not just containers for people; they are the processes which shape people. Such influence is deterministic only if ignored.” Marshall McLuhan quoted by John Culkin 1967

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The McLuhan Institute @McLinstitute

3 weeks ago

“Education is ideally civil defence against media fallout. Yet Western man has had, so far, no education or equipment for meeting any of the mew media on their own terms.” Marshall McLuhan ‘Understanding Media’ 1964

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The McLuhan Institute @McLinstitute

a month ago

“Technologies are like cannibals that eat alive all existing populations. The first person to get swallowed is the consumer. There’s nothing neutral about any technology” Marshall McLuhan Forbes Magazine 3/15/1967

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The McLuhan Institute @McLinstitute

2 months ago

“It is not easy to convince people that I am not dealing with ideas but perceptions. Not concepts but observations. It is easy to disseminate ideas, but difficult to train perception. Marshall McLuhan, 1972. born this day: July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980

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Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media

2 months ago

Frank Zappa, 1981: "Schools train people to be ignorant... They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus." "They prepare you to be a usable victim for a military industrial complex that needs manpower." "As long as you're just smart enough to do a job,…

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The McLuhan Institute @McLinstitute

2 months ago

“Panic about automation as a threat of uniformity on a world scale is the projection into the future of mechanical standardization and specialism, which are now past.” Marshall McLuhan Aspen magazine vol 1, no 4