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Herbert Marshall McLuhan (21 July1911 – 31 December1980) was a Canadianphilosopher, futurist, and communications theorist.

Quotes

1940s

• America is 100% 18th Century. The 18th century had chucked out the principle of metaphor and analogy — the basic fact that as A is to B so is C to D. AB:CD. It can see AB relations. But relations in four terms are still verboten. This amounts to deep occultation of nearly all human thought for the USA.

• Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram remain inaccessible to this state of mind.
  • Letter to Ezra Pound (21 December 1948)

1950s

• There is a real, livingunity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.
  • Letter to Harold Adam Innis (14 March 1951), published in Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p. 223

• The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They canno
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  Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher considered one of the most significant media theorists of the twentieth century. He said, "The medium is the message" and dramatically changed media and communication. McLuhan was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and received his education in Canada and England before joining the academic profession to propagate his media, technology, and society theories.

  McLuhan's work was based on the effects of media on human life, and he could forecast future tendencies years in advance. His idea of the "global village" was prophetic of the Internet as he could show how technology would bring the world closer together and into familiar territory. His writings, including Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man and The Gutenberg Galaxy, which focused on the impact of various media on society, contributed to the development of media ecology.

  He worked most of his time at the University of Toronto, where he established the Centre for Culture and Technology. Some of McLuhan's theories, considered rather radical in the middle of the twentieth centu

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  Marshall McLuhan

  Canadian philosopher and communications scholar (1911–1980)

  Marshall McLuhan CC
  McLuhan in 1945
  Born	Herbert Marshall McLuhan (1911-07-21)July 21, 1911 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  Died	December 31, 1980(1980-12-31) (aged 69) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Spouse	Corinne Lewis ​ (m. 1939)​
  Children	6, including Eric
  Alma mater
  Doctoral advisor	M. C. Bradbrook
  Influences
  Discipline	Philosophy
  School or tradition	Toronto school of communication theory
  Institutions	St. Michael's College, Toronto
  Doctoral students
  Notable students	Walter J. Ong
  Main interests
  Notable ideas
  Influenced
  Website	marshallmcluhan.com

  Herbert Marshall McLuhanCC (, mə-KLOO-ən; July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory.^{[7][8][9][10]} He studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his teaching career as a profess