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Marshall McLuhan

Born

in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

July 21, 1911

Died

December 31, 1980

Website

https://www.marshallmcluhan.com/

Genre

Literary Criticism, Media, Culture

Influences

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Herbert Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. He studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his teaching career as a professor of English at several universities in the United States and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto in 1946, where he remained for the rest of his life. He is known as the "father of media studies".
McLuhan coined the expression "the medium is the message" in the first chapter in his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man and the term global village. He predicted the World Wide Web almost 30 years before it was invented. He was a fixture in media discourse in the late 1960s, though his influence ...more

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	The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Shepard Fairey (Illustrator) 3.98 avg rating — 17,971 ratings — published 1967	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan, Lewis H. Lapham 4.10 avg rating — 4,295 ratings — published 1964 — 107 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man 4.12 avg rating — 1,273 ratings — published 1962 — 71 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War and Peace in the Global Village by Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore 3.95 avg rating — 411 ratings — published 1968 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man by Marshall McLuhan, Philip B. Meggs (Introduction) 4.03 avg rating — 331 ratings — published 1951 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century 4.08 avg rating — 316 ratings — published 1976 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Essential McLuhan by Marshall McLuhan, Eric McLuhan, Frank Zingrone 4.05 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 1995 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Laws of Media: The New Science by Marshall McLuhan, Eric McLuhan 4.05 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews by Marshall McLuhan, David Staines (Editor), Stephanie Mcluhan (Editor) 4.17 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion by Marshall McLuhan, Jacek Szlarek, Eric McLuhan (Editor) 4.15 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say.”
― Marshall McLuhan

tags: humorous

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“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
― Marshall McLuhan

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“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”
― Marshall McLuhan

tags: creativity, shape, tools, work

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