A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations
In an involuntarily contradictory way, Innis was fighting for the return of the oral tradition with the weapons of the written tradition.
“The Later Innis" Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 60, No 3, Autumn (1953), p 392, reprinted in On the Nature of Media (2016), p 46
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