Quotes from the remix

This is the Quotes From The Remix category.

Quotes from DJ Spooky’s remix (2010) of the 1968 audio recording of “The Medium is the Massage”. Listen to the remix via SoundCloud. For more information read “Dead Simple: Marshall McLuhan And The Art Of The Record“.

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

— Marshall McLuhan

“Writing destroyed word linkages.”

— Marshall McLuhan

“[The medium of our time,] electric circuitry, profoundly involves men with one another. Information pours upon us, instantaneously and continuously. As soon as information is acquired, it is very rapidly replaced by still newer information.”

— Marshall McLuhan

“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)

“I… the trouble is, I keep thinking of improvements on these passages all the time…”

— Marshall McLuhan

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

— Marshall McLuhan

“The “expert” is the man who stays put.”

— Marshall McLuhan

“Once more, please.”

“The simultaneous interrelations between many levels of meaning of the word have to be sacrificed in keeping everything moving on a single plane on one level. The word became the static symbol, applicable to and separable from that which it symbolized. It now belonged to the objective world; it could be seen. It was a thing. Now came the distinction between being and meaning.”

— Marshall McLuhan

“Writing was an embalming process that froze language. It eliminated the art of ambiguity and made puns the lowest form of wit.”

— Marshall McLuhan