A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

We have indicated earlier that all human artifacts are extensions of man, outerings or utterings of the human body or psyche, private or corporate.
The Global Village with Bruce Powers (1989), p 20
…every mode of technology is a reflex of our most intimate psychological experience. The pointillage of Seurat is a derivative of Humean association psychology and exfoliates again in modern wire-photos. Movie technique has obvious relations with the panoramic devices of Scott or Tolstoy.
“Inside Blake and Hollywood” (1947), Sewanee Review, October, 1947, p 714.
Year: 1947
↪ Also at #2180, #2217, #3577, #7014
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