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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... relations of those classes to one another are likely to undergo in the progress of society; to what extent the distinction itself admits of being beneficially modified, and if it does not even, in a certain sense, tend gradually to ...
... relations of those classes to one another are likely to undergo in the progress of society; to what extent the distinction itself admits of being beneficially modified, and if it does not even, in a certain sense, tend gradually to ...
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... relation to a new staple.As the costs of navigation declined, less valuable commodities emerged as staples — precious metals, dried fish exported to Spain to secure pre- cious metals, timber to support defence, in the words ofAdam Smith ...
... relation to a new staple.As the costs of navigation declined, less valuable commodities emerged as staples — precious metals, dried fish exported to Spain to secure pre- cious metals, timber to support defence, in the words ofAdam Smith ...
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... relations created within an enlarged time and space universe.The time world was extended beyond the range of remembered things and the space world beyond the range of known places.Writing enormously enhanced a capacity for abstract ...
... relations created within an enlarged time and space universe.The time world was extended beyond the range of remembered things and the space world beyond the range of known places.Writing enormously enhanced a capacity for abstract ...
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... relation to particular empires. Graham Wallas has reminded us that writing as compared with speaking involves an impression at the second remove and reading an impression at the third remove.The voice of a second-rate person is more ...
... relation to particular empires. Graham Wallas has reminded us that writing as compared with speaking involves an impression at the second remove and reading an impression at the third remove.The voice of a second-rate person is more ...
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... relation to these demands, and strengthened its position by construction of the pyramids, which reflected the power of the monarchy over space and time. But a monopoly of knowledge in relation to stone imposed enormous burdens on the ...
... relation to these demands, and strengthened its position by construction of the pyramids, which reflected the power of the monarchy over space and time. But a monopoly of knowledge in relation to stone imposed enormous burdens on the ...
Inhalt
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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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