The later Innis inevitably adopted a discontinuous style, an aphoristic, mental-camera sort of procedure which was indispensable to his needs… The linear development of paragraph perspectives is abandoned almost entirely in favor of the rapid montage of single shots. He juxtaposed one condensed observation with another, mounts one insight on another in quick succession to create a sense of the multiple relationships in process of undergoing rapid development from the impact of specific technological changes.
“The Later Innis" Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 60, No 3, Autumn (1953), p 389, reprinted in On the Nature of Media (2016), p 43
Year: 1953
Chapter:
Ignorance
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan