Introducing the McLuhan Marshalling Machine

A dictionary of Quotations by Marshall McLuhan
(A work in progress.)



TABLE OF CONTENTS


  • ABOUT HIMSELF
  • ACOUSTIC SPACE
  • CROSSING THE DIVIDE #1   FROM TRIBAL TO PRIVATE IDENTITY
  • CROSSING THE DIVIDE #2   FROM MEDIEVAL TO MECHANICAL
  • CROSSING THE DIVIDE #3   FROM LITERATE TO POST-LITERATE
  • ACTIVATING THE POTENTIALS OF NEW TECH
  • ADAPTING TO CHANGE
  • ADVERTISING
  • ALPHABET 
  • AMERICA, NORTH AMERICA
  • ANALOGY AND METAPHOR
  • ANONYMOUS HISTORY
  • ANXIETIES AND MALAISE INDUCED BY TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
  • APHORISM
  • ARCHITECTURE
  • ART, ARTISTS
  • ATTENTION / DISTRACTION
  • AUDIENCE, CROWD, PUBLIC, MASS 
  • BACON, FRANCIS
  • BALANCE (FINDING)
  • BLAKE, WILLIAM  
  • BODY
  • BOMB
  • BOOK
  • BREAKDOWN AS BREAKTHROUGH 
  • CANADA
  • CARTOONS, COMICS, COMIC BOOKS
  • CATHOLIC CHURCH 
  • CAUSALITY 
  • CELEBRITY AND FAME
  • CENTRALIZED / DECENTRALIZED
  • CHANGE
  • CHARISMA
  • CHESTERTON, G.K. 
  • CHIASMUS
  • CHINESE, CHINA
  • CLASSIFICATION
  • CLICHÉ AND ARCHETYPE
  • CLOTHING AND NAKEDNESS
  • COGNITION, RE-COGNITION 
  • COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR
  • COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS
  • COMMUNICATION  
  • COMPETITION
  • COMPUTER  
  • CONSCIOUS, UNCONSCIOUS 
  • CORPORATE
  • CRITICS AND ALARMISTS
  • CROSSING THE DIVIDE #1   FROM TRIBAL TO PRIVATE IDENTITY
  • CROSSING THE DIVIDE #2   FROM MEDIEVAL TO MECHANICAL
  • CROSSING THE DIVIDE #3   FROM LITERATE TO POST-LITERATE
  • DEMOCRACY
  • DIALOGUE
  • DISCARNATE, OMNI-PRESENT
  • DISCONTINUITY 
  • DROPOUT
  • EDUCATION 
  • EFFECT
  • ELECTRIC, ELECTRONIC
  • ELIOT, T.S.
  • ENGLISH LANGUAGE
  • ENVIRONMENT, ANTI-ENVIRONMENT
  • EVOLUTION 
  • EXTENDED CONSCIOUSNESS
  • EXTENSIONS OF US
  • EXTRAPOLATIONS INTO 21ˢᵗ CENTURY #1  LIVING IN AN AGE OF PLAGUE
  • EXTRAPOLATIONS INTO 21ˢᵗ CENTURY  #2  THE INTERNET AS GROUND
  • EXTRAPOLATIONS INTO 21ˢᵗ CENTURY  #3  THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA
  • EXTRAPOLATIONS INTO 21ˢᵗ CENTURY  #4  DISRUPTION AS VALUED GOAL
  • EXTRAPOLATIONS INTO 21ˢᵗ CENTURY  #5  MEDIA LITERACY
  • EXTRAPOLATIONS INTO 21ˢᵗ CENTURY  #6  CROWDSOURCING
  • FAKE
  • FASHION
  • FIGURE/GROUND
  • FLIPS
  • FORM
  • FRAGMENTATION
  • FUN, HUMOUR, GAMES
  • FUTURE, FUTURISTS
  • GLOBAL MEMBRANE
  • GLOBAL VILLAGE
  • GOODBYE TO ALL THAT
  • GOSSIP AND RUMOURS
  • GRAMMAR  
  • GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
  • HARDWARE / SOFTWARE
  • HEMISPHERES OF THE BRAIN
  • HE SOUNDS DOUBTFUL
  • HE SOUNDS HOPEFUL
  • HIS ADVICE
  • HIS AMBIVALENCE ABOUT OUR FUTURE: ELECTRONIC EDEN OR DIGITAL DYSTOPIA?
  • HIS WARNINGS 
  • HISTORY, POST-HISTORY
  • HOT AND COOL
  • HOW LITERACY SURVIVES
  • HUMAN SCALE
  • ICONIC
  • IDENTITY 
  • IGNORANCE
  • IMAGE (AS GROUND)
  • IMAGINATION
  • INFORMATION
  • INFORMATION OVERLOAD
  • INFORMATION WARFARE
  • INNER/OUTER
  • INNIS, HAROLD ADAMS
  • INNOVATION
  • INSTANTANEOUS
  • INTERVAL
  • JOBS
  • JOYCE, JAMES
  • KNOWLEDGE
  • LANGUAGE OF FORMS 
  • LAW OF IMPLEMENTATION
  • LAWS OF MEDIA
            Comments on Each Tetrad
                        1.  Enhance of Amplify
                        2.  Obsolesce
                        3.  Retrieve
                        4.  Flip, or Reverse into Its Opposite
  • LEWIS, WYNDHAM
  • LINEAR AND NONLINEAR
  • LITERACY, POST-LITERACY
  • LIVING IN ONE AGE, THINKING IN ANOTHER
  • LIVING UNITY
  • LOGIC
  • MANAGEMENT
  • MASKS
  • MATCHING AND MAKING
  • McLUHANISMS, QUIPS, ZINGERS
  • MECHANIZATION
  • MEDIA
  • MEDIA AS FORM
  • MEDIA EDUCATION
  • MEDIA EFFECTS
  • MEDIA EFFECTS ARE SUBLIMINAL AND IMPERCEPTIBLE
  • MEDIA FALLOUT
  • MEDIA FRAME MEDIA
  • MEDIA FUSE FUNCTIONS
  • MEDIA HYBRIDS
  • MEDIA IMPACT MEDIA
  • MEDIA LITERACY
  • MEDIA REPROCESS MEDIA
  • MEDIA STUDY
  • MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE
  • MONEY
  • MOVIES 
  • MUSIC
  • MYTH AND MYTHIC 
  • NARCISSUS, DENIAL OF MEDIA EFFECTS
  • NEW CRITICISM
  • NEW MEANS CREATE NEW GOALS
  • NEWS, NEWSPAPERS, PRESS
  • NEXT MEDIUM [THE]
  • NOBODY
  • OFT-CITED QUOTES (HE QUOTED OFTEN)
  • OCCULT.
  • ORAL
  • ORGANIC
  • OUR GREAT TRANSITION
  • OUTSIDE TO BE ALONE
  • PARADOX
  • PARTICIPATION
  • PATTERN RECOGNITION
  • PENTECOSTAL PROSPECT OF UNDERSTANDING AND UNITY
  • PERCEPT
  • PERCEPTION
  • PERSPECTIVE, POINT OF VIEW
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
  • PLANET AND NATURE
  • POE, EDGAR ALLAN
  • POETRY
  • POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
  • POPULAR CULTURE
  • POUND, EZRA
  • PREDICTIONS
  • PRESENT [THE]
  • PRINT
  • PRIVACY
  • PROBE
  • PROGRAMMING THE ENVIRONMENT
  • PROPAGANDA
  • PUTTING ON
  • QUESTIONS
  • RADIO
  • READING
  • REAR-VIEW MIRROR
  • RELIGION
  • REPLAY
  • RETRIBALIZING
  • RHETORIC
  • ROLES
  • SATIRIST 
  • SCIENCE
  • SENSES
  • SERVICES, DISSERVICES                                    
  • SEX AND LOVE
  • SIMULTANEITY
  • SPACE
  • SPECIALISM
  • SPEECH
  • SPEEDUPS
  • SPORTS AND GAMES
  • SURVEILLANCE
  • SURVIVING TECHNOLOGY
  • SYMBOLISTS
  • TACTILE, TOUCH
  • TAKING CONTROL
  • TEACHING
  • TELEGRAPH
  • TELEPHONE
  • TELEVISION
  • TOOLS WE SHAPE, RESHAPE US
  • TRAINING OF PERCEPTION
  • TRANSFORM
  • TRANSLATING OURSELVES INTO INFORMATION PROCESSES
  • TRIBAL SOCIETIES
  • TRUDEAU, PIERRE ELLIOTT
  • TRUTH
  • TWENTIETH CENTURY
  • TYPEWRITER
  • UNCOMPLETED AND “DREAM” PROJECTS
  • USER AS CONTENT
  • VALUE JUDGMENTS
  • VALUES
  • VIOLENCE
  • VISUAL SPACE
  • WAKE THEM UP! SHAKE THEM UP!
  • WAR
  • WEST AND EAST
  • WHEN MEDIA DIVIDE US
  • WILL PRINT AND LITERACY SURVIVE?
  • WRITING
  • XEROGRAPHY
  • YEATS, W.B.

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