CMNS 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Middle Power, Canadian Identity
9 Dec 2016
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Permanent media binds time decentralization and hierarchy. Impermanent media binds space centralization and empire. The development of paper and printing linked to centralization of political authority and imperialism. The computer does not impose on us the ways it should be used: or does it, technology exists within a certain set of material relations, political structure, and epistemological paradigms. Is it an imposition or a construction: they exclude certain forms of community and permit others. Imagined political community imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. It was a struggle to build and required political will epic narrative: state project manifestation of canadian will to exist, the steam engine offers an icon of national power. Louis riel and the metis rebellion of 1885. Railway embodies the power to of the state to assert control over the land. To quell rebellion railway allows for the massive and rapid deployment of troops. Becomes the symbol of the national will.
