Marshall McLuhan Space Quotations

I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form.

Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.

Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness [all-at-once-ness]. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening. ... The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.

The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word.

Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.

Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.

Einstein pronounced the doom of continuous or 'rational' space, and the way was made clear for Picasso and the Marx Brothers and Mad magazine.

Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events.

The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.

The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes.

Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.

Time’ has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening

To say that a body or its gravitational field 'bends in space' in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.