Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian media critic renowned in the 60’s for his book, Understanding Media. Now a cultural relic, the point of Understanding Media is often boiled down to McLuhan’s famous phrase, “the medium is the message.” McLuhan believed that the content we absorb is lulling us into a state of complacence, and distracting people from the numbing effects of the medium itself. Though McLuhan’s unease was sparked by television, his viewpoint is highly relevant to Carr, both as a founding example of media criticism and for the ways that his theory applies to users of all sorts of media.
Marshall McLuhan Quotes in The Shallows
The The Shallows quotes below are all either spoken by Marshall McLuhan or refer to Marshall McLuhan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 10
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When we extend some part of ourselves artificially, we also distance ourselves from the amplified part and its natural functions.
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Marshall McLuhan Quotes in The Shallows
The The Shallows quotes below are all either spoken by Marshall McLuhan or refer to Marshall McLuhan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 10
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When we extend some part of ourselves artificially, we also distance ourselves from the amplified part and its natural functions.
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