Quotes about Harold Innis

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The present volume to this point might be regarded as a gloss on a single text of Harold Innis: "The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to communication industries hastened the consolidation of vernaculars, the rise of nationalism, revolution, and new outbreaks of savagery in the twentieth century."

Marshall McLuhan

The alphabet is an aggressive and militant absorber and transformer of culture, as Harold Innis was the first to show.

Marshall McLuhan