UNI101Y1 Lecture Notes - Dialectic, Communication Theory, Rick Salutin
11 Mar 2014
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Whole ways of life uprooted by technological change: iron goods disrupted ways of life of natives. Innis obsessed about transformation of ways of life of world (mostly west) because of printing press, massively altered ways of life and seeing life. Innis on bias: instead of political, background, historical differences. Minerva, goddess of wisdom, as civilization starts to decline, it is then that they can actually understand their problems, what they did wrong and how they could have solved them How does writing lead to sensational interests, scandal We have no history of conversation or of the oral tradition except as they are revealed darkly thru the written or the printed word. Plato writes in dialogue between his teacher socrates and his pupils. Oral tradition: lots of stuff gets raised, very little gets settled, but goes all around the subject. Not much concluded or only very gradually, very little.
