Quote of the Day | 0903
Harold Innis suggested that the history of culture itself was characterized by a balance between media that persisted in time — think stone inscriptions and heavy parchment books — and those offering the greatest portability across space, like paper, radio, and television. Not only does this offer a grand scheme to think about media, it also suggested (for Innis at least) that modernity, for good or ill, had tipped the balance toward the ephemeral-but-portable, what Engelsing would call extensive rather than intensive media.
Tim Carmody, ’10 Reading Revolutions Before E-Books’
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