"The literate man or society develops the tremendous power of acting in any matter with considerable detachment from the feeling or emotional involvement that a nonliterate man or society would experience"

     MARSHALL McLUHAN

(On literacy & Violence)

"Once we have surrender our senses and nervous system to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left."

     MARSHALL McLUHAN

(Thoughts on media and advertisement)

Portrait by Jorge Romero Villavicencio

Misstep

"It could well be that the successive mechanizations of the various physical organs since the invention of printing have made too violent and superstimulated a social experience for the central nervous system to endure."

     MARSHALL McLUHAN

"Vice is a monster of such frightful mien
 As to be hated needs but to be seen:
 But seen to oft, familiar with its face,
 We first endure, then pity, then embrace."

     ALEXANDER POPE

"The price of eternal vigilance is indifference."

     MARSHALL McLUHAN

"When all the available resources and energies have been played up in an organism or in any structure there is some kind of reversal of pattern."

     MARSHALL McLUHAN

"... any medium has the power of imposing its own assumption on the unwary."

     MARSHALL McLUHAN

"This is the Age of Anxiety for the reason of the electric implosion that compels commitment and participation, quite regardless of any " point of view"."

     MARSHALL McLUHAN

Desktop

Barista

Suspicion IV

Suspicion III

Suspicion II

Suspicion

Geometric Pattern

Tower

Solo

Portrait II