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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... became known in the international scholarly world not as Professor Innis of the Department of Political Economy, University of Toronto, but simply as “Innis of Canada.” Not one of his economic history colleagues accompanied him on his ...
... became known in the international scholarly world not as Professor Innis of the Department of Political Economy, University of Toronto, but simply as “Innis of Canada.” Not one of his economic history colleagues accompanied him on his ...
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... became sufficiently strong to support construction of a transcontinental railway, the Canadian Pacific, completed in 1885. On the Pacific coast the discovery of placer gold was followed by rapid increase in settlement, exhaustion of the ...
... became sufficiently strong to support construction of a transcontinental railway, the Canadian Pacific, completed in 1885. On the Pacific coast the discovery of placer gold was followed by rapid increase in settlement, exhaustion of the ...
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... became the basis of a large administration empire. Materials that emphasize time favour decentralization and hier- archical types of institutions, while those that emphasize space favour centralization and systems of government less ...
... became the basis of a large administration empire. Materials that emphasize time favour decentralization and hier- archical types of institutions, while those that emphasize space favour centralization and systems of government less ...
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... became differentiated from things and the dualism demanded thought and reconciliation. Life was contrasted with the eternal universe and attempts were made to reconcile the individual with the universal spirit.The generalizations which ...
... became differentiated from things and the dualism demanded thought and reconciliation. Life was contrasted with the eternal universe and attempts were made to reconcile the individual with the universal spirit.The generalizations which ...
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... became the Lord of ritual and magic. He represented cre- ation by utterance and production by thought and utterance. The spoken word possessed creative efficiency and the written word in the tomb perpetuated it.3 The magical formulae of ...
... became the Lord of ritual and magic. He represented cre- ation by utterance and production by thought and utterance. The spoken word possessed creative efficiency and the written word in the tomb perpetuated it.3 The magical formulae of ...
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The Oral Tradition and Greek Civilization | 75 |
The Written Tradition and the Roman Empire | 106 |
Parchment and Paper | 138 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 164 |
Notes | 199 |
Marginalia | 220 |
Suggested Reading | 270 |
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