Quotes from TEIAA

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Quotes from “The Electric Information Age Album” (TEIAA) by The Masses, an audio extension to “The Electric Information Age Book” (TEIAB) in the spirit of the “The Medium is the Massage” LP. More info via Inventory Press.

“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)

“How do you like it so far?”

“{Electric circuitry is orientalizing the West.} The contained, the distinct, the separate—our Western legacy—are being replaced by the flowing, the unified, the fused.”

— Marshall McLuhan

“We are being taken on an inner trip, into our own inner beings, which involve us, in depth, in things that had formerly been merely superficial, visual, external, and detached from our own beings.”

— Marshall McLuhan

“1-2, 1-2-3-4”

“Until WRITING was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion {, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog}.”

— Marshall McLuhan, see “Counterblast” (1954)

“The wrath of Achilles is my theme. That fatal wrath {, which—in fulfilment of the will of Zeus—brought the Achaeans so much suffering and sent the gallant souls of many noblemen to Hades, leaving their bodies as carrion for the dogs and passing birds. Let us begin, goddess of song, with the angry parting that took place between Agamemnon King of Men and the great Achilles, son of Peleus. Which of the gods was it that made them quarrel?}”

— Homer, “Iliad”

“Our time is a time for crossing barriers, for erasing old categories—[for looking ahead,] for probing around”

— Marshall McLuhan

“When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively apposed, put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.”

— Marshall McLuhan

“Quanto è bella la prospectiva.”

— Paolo Uccello

“Printing {, a ditto device}”

— Marshall McLuhan

“Electrical information devices for universal, tyrannical womb-to-tomb surveillance are causing a very serious dilemma between our claim to privacy and the community’s need to know.”

— Marshall McLuhan

“Just you and me George.”

“{Every new technology creates a new environment in which men live and work.} The technology of the alphabet and of moveable type—printing {—predisposed us to think and act in certain ways.}”

— Marshall McLuhan

“{Everything is changing—you,} your family, your neighborhood, your education, your job, your government {, your relation to “the others”. And they’re changing dramatically.}”

— Marshall McLuhan

“All
media
are
extensions
of
some
human
faculty—
psychic [/mental]
or
physical.”

— Marshall McLuhan

“The wheel …is an extension of the foot.”

— Marshall McLuhan, see also “Understanding Media: The Extensions Of Man”, p. 46

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

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

“Clothing, [is] an extension of the skin…”

— Marshall McLuhan, see also “Understanding Media: The Extensions Of Man”, p. 129

“Electric circuitry, [the medium of our time, is] an extension of the central nervous system.”

— Marshall McLuhan, see also “Understanding Media: The Extensions Of Man”, p. 3

“[Media, by altering the environment, evoke in us unique ratios of sense perceptions.] The extension of any one sense [displaces the other senses and] alters the way we think and act—the way we perceive the world. [The way we perceive our own bodies.]”

— Marshall McLuhan, see also “Understanding Media: The Extensions Of Man”, p. 69

“When
these
ratios
change,
men change.”

— Marshall McLuhan, see also “Address at Vision 65” , p. 9 and “Understanding Media: The Extensions Of Man”, p. 98

“As we move into the world of integral, computerized knowledge, mere classification becomes secondary and inadequate to the speeds with which data can now be processed. We are moving out of the world of data classification into the world of pattern recognition.”

— Marshall McLuhan, see “Address at Vision 65” , p. 4

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

— parrot

“Now, what then?”

— Marshall McLuhan

“There’ll probably be some music, but we’ll manage to find a quiet corner where we can talk.”

— Erik Satie, quoted in “Silence: Lectures and Writings” by John Cage