„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."
“Bless Madison Ave for restoring the magical art of the cavemen to suburbia.”
Quelle: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 130
“My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age”
Letter to Robert Fulford, 1964. Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p. 300
1960s
Kontext: My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
Quelle: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 103
“In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.”
"Innovation is obsolete", Evergreen review, Volume 15, Issues 86-94, Grove Press, 1971, p. 64
1970s
“The media have substituted themselves for the older world.”
"Education, Language, and Media". Cycle 7, 1973, p. 232
1970s
1970s, The argument: causality in the electric world (1973)
Quelle: 1970s, Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972), p. 8
“Languages are environments to which the child related synesthetically.”
Quelle: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 166
Quelle: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 15
“Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.”
Yeats studies, Issue 2, Irish University Press, 1972, p. 135
1970s
Quelle: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 74
Quelle: 1970s, Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972), p. 152
Quelle: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 99
"Violence in the media." Canadian Forum. Volume 56, 1976, p. 9
1970s
Quelle: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 272
Quelle: 1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970), p.66
Quelle: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 177
Quelle: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 21
“In the electric age we wear all mankind as our skin.”
Quelle: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 47
“The Greeks encountered the confusion of tongues when numbers invaded Euclidean space.”
Quelle: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 203
1970s, Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder (1976)
“The book is a private confessional form that provides a “point of view.””
1960s, Understanding Media (1964)
“At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.”
Quelle: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 109