„Einige Psychoanalytiker leiten das Geld vom frühkindlichen Trieb, mit Kot zu spielen, ab.“
Die magischen Kanäle, 1968
Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC war ein kanadischer Philosoph, Geisteswissenschaftler, Professor für englische Literatur, Literaturkritiker, Rhetoriker und Kommunikationstheoretiker. McLuhans Werk gilt als ein Grundstein der Medientheorie. Seine zentrale These lautet Das Medium ist die Botschaft. Außerdem formulierte er den Begriff „Globales Dorf“. McLuhan prägte die Diskussion über Medien von den späten 1960er Jahren bis zu seinem Tod. Wikipedia
„Einige Psychoanalytiker leiten das Geld vom frühkindlichen Trieb, mit Kot zu spielen, ab.“
Die magischen Kanäle, 1968
„Das Medium ist die Botschaft.“
Das Medium ist die Botschaft, siehe unten #Quelle
"The medium is the message. " - The Medium is the Message (1967) p. 26
„Der eigentliche, totale Krieg ist zu einem Informationskrieg geworden.“
Das Medium ist die Botschaft
"Real, total war has become information war."
„Die neue elektronische Interdependenz formt die Welt zu einem globalen Dorf.“
Das Medium ist die Botschaft
"The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village." - The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962) p. 36
„Umwelten sind keine passiven Hüllen, sondern eher aktive Vorgänge, die unsichtbar bleiben.“
Das Medium ist die Botschaft
"Environments are not passive wrappings, but are, rather, active processes which are invisible."
Quelle: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 28
1970s, The Education of Mike McManus, TVOntario, December 28 1977
“A fixed point of view becomes possible with print and ends the image as a plastic organism.”
Quelle: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 144
Quelle: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 237
Quelle: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 111
Quelle: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 278
“Violence is the effort to maintain and restore a weakened psyche.”
Quelle: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 377
Quelle: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 70
1990s and beyond, "The Agenbite of Outwit" (1998)
“Invention is the mother of all necessities.”
1970s, The argument: causality in the electric world (1973)
“It is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behaviour.”
1960s, Understanding Media (1964)
“The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.”
Quelle: 1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970), p. 168
Quelle: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 136
Quelle: 1970s, Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972), p. 211
Quelle: 1970s, Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972), p. 11
Quelle: 1970s, Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972), p. 63
“African audiences cannot accept our passive consumer role in the presence of film.”
Quelle: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 44
Cameo appearance as himself in Woody Allen's 1977 film Annie Hall
1970s
Quelle: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 260
“Visual space is the space of detachment. Audile-tactile space is the space of involvement.”
Quelle: 1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970), p. 194
Quelle: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 267
Quelle: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 37
Quelle: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 15
“A man's reach must exceed his grasp or what's a metaphor?”
A play on the line's in Robert Browning's poem "Andrea del Sarto":
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
Quelle: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p.7
Quelle: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 55