Quotes from BATIEA

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Quotes from the “Book Art The Information Electric Age”. The book is a remix of Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore’s “The Medium is the Massage” and “The Electric Information Age Book”, itself an homage to “The Medium is the Massage”. More info via the Kolaj website.

“{As [the] new [electric] technologies come into play, people are less and less convinced of the importance of self-expression.} Teamwork succeeds private effort.”

— Marshall McLuhan

“Good Morning!”

“and how!”

“{The book} is an extension of the eye…”

— Marshall McLuhan, see also “Understanding Media: The Extensions Of Man”, p. 368

“Reminders—(relics of the past)—in a world of the PRINTED word-efforts to introduce an AUDITORY dimension onto the visual organization of the PAGE: all effect information, RHYTHM, inflection, pauses. Until recent years, these EFFECTS were quite elaborate—they allowed for all sorts of CHANGES of type faces. The NEWSPAPER layout provides more variety of AUDITORY effects from typography than the ordinary book page does.”

— Marshall McLuhan

“Ours is a brand-new world of all-at-onceness.”

— Marshall McLuhan

“”Time” [in a sense] has ceased, “space” has vanished. [Like primitives,] we now live in a global village [of our own making]—a simultaneous happening.”

— Marshall McLuhan

“We are back in acoustic space. {We have begun again to structure the primordial feeling, the tribal emotions from which a few centuries of literacy divorced us.}”

— Marshall McLuhan, see “Counterblast” (1954)

“When information is brushed against information… {the results are startling and effective.}”

— Marshall McLuhan

“The medium is the massage. {The medium is the massage.}”

— parrot

“Printing {, a ditto device}”

— Marshall McLuhan

“The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by electric media—movies, Telstar, flight—far surpasses any possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts.”

— Marshall McLuhan

“Now all the world’s a sage.”

— Marshall McLuhan

“”Authorship”—in the sense we know it today, individual intellectual effort related to the book as an economic commodity—was practically unknown before the advent of print technology. Medieval scholars were indifferent to the precise identity of the “books” they studied. In turn, they rarely signed even what was clearly their own. They were a humble service organization. Procuring texts was often a very tedious and time-consuming task. Many small texts were transmitted into volumes of miscellaneous content, very much like “jottings” in a scrapbook, and, in this transmission, authorship was often lost.”

— Marshall McLuhan

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