Remembering Marshall McLuhan on his birthday 🎂
📷 Bernard Gottfryd, Toronto, 1965
"All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values."
Coffee with Marshall McLuhan ☕️
Photo: Leonard McComb for Life Magazine, 1967
Today we're celebrating the great Edmontonian's birthday 🎂
"Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment."
- Marshall McLuhan
📷 Lee Friedlander, Philadelphia, 1961
"We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future."
- Marshall McLuhan
📷 Neil Young by Danny Clinch, 2005
"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."
Marshall McLuhan was born on this day in 1911.
📷 Yousuf Karsh, 1974
Marshall McLuhan by Manuel Bidermanas
"Far from regarding technological change as inevitable, I insist that if we understand its components we can turn it off any time we choose. Short of turning it off, there are lots of moderate controls conceivable."
"The winner is one who knows when to drop out in order to get in touch."
- Marshall McLuhan
📷 Glenn Gould by Alfred Eisenstaedt
"He came from a long line of bullshitters, par excellence."
- Philip Marchand on Marshall McLuhan, whose birthday is today 🎂
📷 Brian Griffin, 1979 @NPGLondon
"The future of the book is the blurb."
- Marshall McLuhan
Highly recommended: Philip Marchand's fine book Marshall McLuhan: The Medium & The Messenger
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More - much more - coffee with Marshall McLuhan ☕️☕️☕️
📷 Leonard McComb, 1967
"The 'message' of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs."
- Understanding Media
"When we put our central nervous system outside us we returned to the primal nomadic state."
- Marshall McLuhan
📷 iPhone launch, Tony Avelar, 2007
"New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media."
- Marshall McLuhan
📷 Wayne Miller, 1967
Remembering Marshall McLuhan on his birthday 🎂
"We read the 21st-century media through his eyes."
- B. W. Powe
Caricature by David Levine
Wayne Miller
@NewYorker, October 15, 1966
"In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point."
- Marshall McLuhan
Another portrait of Marshall McLuhan by Yousuf Karsh
"He said a lot of wild and silly things, and a quite high proportion of truly brilliant things."
- Mitchell Stephens
"Colour is not so much a visual as a tactile medium."
- Marshall McLuhan
🎨 Jack Bush, Light Grey, July 1968
"The most human thing about us is our technology."
- Marshall McLuhan
📷 Lewis Hine self-portrait, New York, 1908
"The artists of our culture, 'the antennae of the race,' had tuned in to the new ground and begun exploring discontinuity and simultaneity."
- Marshall McLuhan, Laws of Media
📷 Neil Young by Julie Gardner, 2014
"The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer."
- Marshall McLuhan
📷 Reggie & Ronnie Kray by David Bailey
bromide print, April 1965
@NPGLondon
Marshall McLuhan by John Reeves, 1967
"Suppose he is what he sounds like, the most important thinker since Newton, Darwin, Freud, Einstein & Pavlov, studs of the intelligentsia game."
- Tom Wolfe, "The new life out there", New York Herald Tribune, 1965
"Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century."
- Marshall McLuhan
📷 January Jones & Jon Hamm by Annie Leibovitz, 2009
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