Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Sensorium, Harold Innis, Marshall Mcluhan
9 Jul 2014
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The bias of communication alexander john watson. Volunteered for the army in 1916: worked on communications. Hones his focus on power, empire and communications. Attempted to write a history of the world through the lens of the materiality of technology and communications media. A combination of a theory of culture and a theory of technology. Motivated by a desire to intervene in a world he saw as highly unstable, centralized, present-minded, that has lost a sense of history, traditions, rituals, and broader cultural values. Wrote on the history of the fur trade and relations with the first nations: what we come to understand as. Canada" its roads, railways, water routes were dictated by the resource demands of the empire elsewhere. Canada"s economy is governed by the production of one specific resource (fur, cod, pulp, paper, oil, etc. ) exploited and extracted by the technologies and interests foreign to those who live here.
