COMS 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Frankfurt School, Canadian Identity, Materialism
19 Dec 2016
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Not really a school like the frankfurt school. It"s a close-knit, intellectual group: less-cohesive unit, loose group of scholars and artists interested in contemporary communications (mostly located in toronto and at u of t) They were often at odds with each other. New way of thinking about culture: modes and devices of communications were crucial to society, history, etc. Canada is difficult to describe: it"s too big to communicate across, it has an aggressive climate (multiple aggressive climates, it"s difficult to organize and govern. What is canadian identity: canada is not the u. s. We are steeped in oral tradition: common law, oral tradition was the dominant form of communications with the indigenous. Interested in rural/urban & minor/major civilizations and centre/margin. Started as a farm boy and became an academic. Became a professor at u of t. Primarily remembered for bias of communications and empire and. Communications -> both are foundational texts in the field.
