[“The Medium is the message”] might be illustrated by saying that the English language is an enormous medium that is very much more potent and effective than anything that is ever said in English, but anybody who uses that medium invokes or resonates the totality of it even with the most trivial remark.
“Electric Consciousness and the Church” (1970), in MM: The Man and His Message (1989), p 159; also in The Medium and the Light, (1999), p 79
Year: 1970
Chapters:
English Language | Medium is the Message
↪ Also at #2013
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan