Education is civil defence against media fallout. Marshall McLuhan More Quotes by Marshall McLuhan More Quotes From Marshall McLuhan Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction. Marshall McLuhan identitylosspeople 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 obscenityfavorsfigures The user of the electric light - or a hammer, or a language, or a book - is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message. Marshall McLuhan hammerslightbook The real news is bad news. Marshall McLuhan journalismnewsreal If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might not our current translation of our entire lives into the spiritual form of information seem to make of the entire. Marshall McLuhan citiesspiritualmen Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression. Marshall McLuhan perceptionexpressionplay The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions. Marshall McLuhan nostalgiaworldfall What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception. Marshall McLuhan specialistsperceptionart You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources. Marshall McLuhan resourcesknow-howidentity When information rubs against information the results are startling and effective. The perrenial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms. Marshall McLuhan questsinformationresults Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. Marshall McLuhan mediaunderstandingway The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception. Marshall McLuhan trainingperceptionartist In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same. Marshall McLuhan distancemessagesjesus It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art. Marshall McLuhan works-of-artenvironmentart Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist. Marshall McLuhan lastscreativeartist Clear prose indicates the absence of thought. Marshall McLuhan proseclearabsence Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed. Marshall McLuhan denialsucceedevil Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement. Marshall McLuhan feeteasemoving 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 bloworderart Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity. Marshall McLuhan languageperceptionmean
