A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

All media work us over completely. They are so persuasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the massage. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty – psychic or physical.
The Medium is the Massage (1967), p. 26
Year: 1967
Chapters: Media | Media as Form
↪ Also at #4450, #4479, #4512
Compiled by William Kuhns
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