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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... spoken word and to forget that it has left little tangible remains.We can sense its importance7 even in contemporary civilization and we can see its influence in the great literature of the heroic age8 of the Teutonic peoples and of ...
... spoken word and to forget that it has left little tangible remains.We can sense its importance7 even in contemporary civilization and we can see its influence in the great literature of the heroic age8 of the Teutonic peoples and of ...
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... words of Cassirer11 language transformed the indeterminate into the determinate idea and held it within the sphere of finite determinations.The spoken word set its seal on and gave definite form to what the mind created and culled away ...
... words of Cassirer11 language transformed the indeterminate into the determinate idea and held it within the sphere of finite determinations.The spoken word set its seal on and gave definite form to what the mind created and culled away ...
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... word. Priests and scribes interpreted a slowly changing tradition and provided a justification for established ... spoken beyond the range of personal experience was imposed on dispersed communities and accepted by them. It has been ...
... word. Priests and scribes interpreted a slowly changing tradition and provided a justification for established ... spoken beyond the range of personal experience was imposed on dispersed communities and accepted by them. It has been ...
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... spoken word possessed creative efficiency and the written word in the tomb perpetuated it.3 The magical formulae of the pyramids assumed the productive and creative power of certain spoken words. In the handbooks of temple structure and ...
... spoken word possessed creative efficiency and the written word in the tomb perpetuated it.3 The magical formulae of the pyramids assumed the productive and creative power of certain spoken words. In the handbooks of temple structure and ...
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... spoken word. Centralization of the gods favoured the growth of political ideas. After a period of political confusion from 2360 BC to 2160 BC a new political order emerged in which the absolute monarch was replaced by the royal family ...
... spoken word. Centralization of the gods favoured the growth of political ideas. After a period of political confusion from 2360 BC to 2160 BC a new political order emerged in which the absolute monarch was replaced by the royal family ...
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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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