“Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth. One of the merits of motivation research has been the revelation of man's sex relation to the motorcar. (p.46)”
“I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!”
Marshall McLuhan