Marshall McLuhan @marshallmcluhan

The official Twitter account of media and communications theorist Herbert Marshall McLuhan. 2011/12 is MMXI. marshallmcluhan.com Toronto, Canada Joined November 2010

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Marshall McLuhan @marshallmcluhan

a year ago

There is absolutely no inevitability if you are willing to consider what is happening.

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Marshall McLuhan @marshallmcluhan

5 years ago

“The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.” – Wyndham Lewis

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Marshall McLuhan @marshallmcluhan

5 years ago

Mud sometimes gives the illusion of depth.

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Marshall McLuhan @marshallmcluhan

5 years ago

The more that is publicly recorded about the actual existence of any person, the more (s)he is diminished in (her) his private existence… (s)he becomes the admirers of (her) his recordings.

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Marshall McLuhan @marshallmcluhan

5 years ago

The net effect of speedup is slowdown.

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Marshall McLuhan @marshallmcluhan

5 years ago

The bias of each medium of communication is far more distorting than the deliberate lie.

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Marshall McLuhan @marshallmcluhan

5 years ago

The new media are not bridges between man and nature—they are nature.

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Marshall McLuhan @marshallmcluhan

5 years ago

We live decades ahead of our thinking.

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Marshall McLuhan @marshallmcluhan

5 years ago

The more you make people alike, the more competition you have. Competition is based on the principle of absolute conformity.

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Marshall McLuhan @marshallmcluhan

5 years ago

Any minute, trite bit of news acquires infinite potential at the speed of electricity. Any trivial thing can become momentous.

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Marshall McLuhan @marshallmcluhan

5 years ago

Nothing could be further from the spirit of new technology than “a place for everything and everything in its place.”

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Marshall McLuhan @marshallmcluhan

5 years ago

Let us keep in mind that the new reality is in the image and not behind it.

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Marshall McLuhan @marshallmcluhan

5 years ago

In one era, and out the other.

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Marshall McLuhan @marshallmcluhan

6 years ago

The world of media ecology has lost an important voice; the world, a great mind. RIP Eric. stmikes.utoronto.ca/news/usmc-mour…

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Marshall McLuhan @marshallmcluhan

6 years ago

RIP Tom Wolfe. youtu.be/FkflL6PTmo8

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Marshall McLuhan @marshallmcluhan

6 years ago

We need a kind of ecology, equilibrium or balance among all these services otherwise we get hopelessly lopsided.

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Marshall McLuhan @marshallmcluhan

6 years ago

The real use of the computer is not to reduce staff or cut costs, or to speed up or smooth out anything that has been going on. Its true function is to program and orchestrate terrestrial and galactic environments and energies in a harmonious way.

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Marshall McLuhan @marshallmcluhan

6 years ago

The effects of technology do not occur at the level of opinions or concepts, but alter sense ratios or patterns of perception steadily and without any resistance.

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Marshall McLuhan @marshallmcluhan

7 years ago

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media works as environments.

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Marshall McLuhan @marshallmcluhan

7 years ago

If men were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts?