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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
Canadian Sociologist
Born: Jul 21, 1911
Died: Dec 31, 1980
Age First Man Our Technology World
Related authors: Emile Durkheim Georg Simmel Ivan Illich Jean Baudrillard Matthew Desmond Pierre Bourdieu Talcott Parsons Zygmunt Bauman
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. Marshall McLuhan
First Everybody Press Immortality Shakespeare Except Mistaken Printing Printing Press Engine
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. Marshall McLuhan
World Political Will Action Everywhere Insatiable Criterion Both Since Discover Infallibly Western Western World Essentially Where Agencies Century Congenial Mechanical Expression Appetite Enjoyment
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. Marshall McLuhan
Collective Harmony Aims Out Collective Consciousness Toward Ideally Advertising Ultimate Methods Goal Handicraft Endeavors Human Impulses Aspirations Electronic Using Among Consciousness Programmed
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. Marshall McLuhan
Every Society Evoking Members Indifferent Ritual Occasion Provided Commercial Essentially Ascetic Social Whose Right Tone
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. Marshall McLuhan
Travel Strange Photograph Purpose Had Until Been Encounter Unfamiliar Which Now
The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty. Marshall McLuhan
Defends Everything Except Almost Almost Everything Scientist His Ignorant Specialty Right
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds. Marshall McLuhan
Business Spell Our Minds Background Slogan See Some Magic About Advertiser Go Quietly Tune
Jokes are grievances. Marshall McLuhan
Jokes
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities. Marshall McLuhan
Time Day Will Made Faithful Society Our Range One Day Our Time Entire Ads Most Discover Historians Reflections Any Richest Activities Ever
The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns. Marshall McLuhan
Time Mark Our Our Time Imposed Revulsion Against Patterns
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. Marshall McLuhan
Today Eloquence Classics Classroom Nor Models Which Agencies Ad
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