Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way to private writing. Records and messages displaced the collective memory. Poetry was written and detached from the collective… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
We must appraise civilization in relation to its territory and in relation to its duration. The character of the medium of communication tends to… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant. — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
The significance of a basic medium to its civilization is difficult to appraise since the means of appraisal are influenced by the media, and… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
It is suggested that all written works, including this one, have dangerous implications to the vitality of an oral tradition and to the health… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
The history of Canada has been profoundly influenced by the habits of an animal which very fittingly occupies a prominent place on her coat… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. These boundaries included a vast north temperate land area extending… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs. — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Graham Wallas has reminded us that writing as compared with speaking involves an impression at the second remove and reading an impression at the… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
