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The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.

The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.

Marshall McLuhan

Technology, Media, Body

Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.

Marshall McLuhan

Art, Technology, Men

Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.

Marshall McLuhan

Technology, Produce, Bias

"Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.71, 1988.

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

Marshall McLuhan

Stress, Mean, Technology

Marshall McLuhan, Michel Moos (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.124, Routledge

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

Marshall McLuhan

Letting Go, Technology, Men

Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects.

Marshall McLuhan

Technology, Politics, Computer

Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence.

Marshall McLuhan

Technology, Shapes, Patterns

Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.330, University of Toronto Press

It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the hemispheres and of human sensibilities into equilibrium with those grounds.

Marshall McLuhan

Technology, Psychics, Play

Marshall McLuhan, Bruce R. Powers (1989). “The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century”, Oxford University Press, USA