Empire and CommunicationsDundurn, 01.01.2007 - 288 Seiten It’s been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis’s most important contributions to the debate about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. In this seminal text, he traces humanity’s movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media of recent times. Along the way, he presents his own influential concepts of oral communication, time and space bias, and monopolies of knowledge. |
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... reflected an intense interest in the possible future of our own civilization. In the title of these lectures on imperial economic history it is clear that in our civilization we are concerned not only with civilizations but also with ...
... reflected an intense interest in the possible future of our own civilization. In the title of these lectures on imperial economic history it is clear that in our civilization we are concerned not only with civilizations but also with ...
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... reflects the influence of more than one medium and in which the bias of one medium towards decentralization is offset by the bias of another medium towards centralization.6 We can conveniently divide the history of the West into the ...
... reflects the influence of more than one medium and in which the bias of one medium towards decentralization is offset by the bias of another medium towards centralization.6 We can conveniently divide the history of the West into the ...
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... reflected in an absolute monarch to whom everything was subordinated. It has been suggested that such power followed the growth of astronomical knowledgeb by which the floods ofthe Nile could be predicted, notably a discovery of the ...
... reflected in an absolute monarch to whom everything was subordinated. It has been suggested that such power followed the growth of astronomical knowledgeb by which the floods ofthe Nile could be predicted, notably a discovery of the ...
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... reflection.”10 A marked increase in writing by hand was accompanied by secularization of writing, thought, and activity. The social revolution between the Old and the New Kingdom was marked by a flow of eloquence and a displacement of ...
... reflection.”10 A marked increase in writing by hand was accompanied by secularization of writing, thought, and activity. The social revolution between the Old and the New Kingdom was marked by a flow of eloquence and a displacement of ...
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... shared supremacy in religion and reflected the twofold influence of the Nile and the Sun. Night and day were joined as complementary — Osiris, yesterday and death, Ra, to-morrow and life. Funerary rites 37 EMPIRE AND COMMUNICATIONS.
... shared supremacy in religion and reflected the twofold influence of the Nile and the Sun. Night and day were joined as complementary — Osiris, yesterday and death, Ra, to-morrow and life. Funerary rites 37 EMPIRE AND COMMUNICATIONS.
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The Oral Tradition and Greek Civilization | 75 |
The Written Tradition and the Roman Empire | 106 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 138 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 164 |
Notes | 199 |
Marginalia | 220 |
Suggested Reading | 270 |
Index | 274 |
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