Author
Marshall McLuhan
Subject Children 3
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Brian Eno
Lowdef
One theory is that black-and-white photography is always more sexy than colour photography. The reason for this is provided by Marshall McLuhan, who points out that if a thing is 'high definition', which colour photography is, it provides more information and doesn't require participation as much as if it is 'low definition...
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Marshall McLuhan
Colorless
2010
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Emergence in Cultural Transformation
...[I]f a new technology extends one or more of our senses
outside us into the social world, then new ratios among all of
our senses will occur in that particular culture. It is
comparable to what happens when a new note is added to a melody.
And when the sense ratios alter in any culture then what...
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Marshall McLuhan
Interpersonal
2009
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Print
Print is the extreme phase of alphabet culture that detribalizes or decollectivizes man in the first instance. Print raises the visual features of alphabet to highest intensity of definition. Thus print carries the individuating power of the phonetic alphabet much further than manuscript culture could ever do. Print is the ...
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Marshall McLuhan
Interpersonal
2009