Geburtsdatum | Freitag, 21. Juli 1911 |
Geburtsort | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
Todesort | Toronto |
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Beschreibung | Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. He studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his teaching career as a professor of English at several universities in the United States and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto in 1946, where he remained for the rest of his life. |
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
Money is a poor man's credit card.
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
Art is anything you can get away with.
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Money is just the poor man's credit card.
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
