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“Space at the Margins: Critical Theory and Colonial Space After Innis,” in Harold In-
nis and the New Century, 281–308.
34. Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957; reprint, Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971), 17.
35. Frye, Anatomy of Criticism, 44.
36. Northrop Frye, The Critical Path: An Essay on the Social Context of Literary
Criticism (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1971), 24–25.
37. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (2nd edition, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1962).
38. Poster, The Mode of Information, 13; emphasis added.
39. Poster, Cultural Theory and Poststructuralism, 7.
40. Poster, Cultural Theory and Poststructuralism, 139.
41. Mark Poster, The Second Media Age (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995), 75.
42. Poster, Cultural Theory and Poststructuralism, 7–8.
43. Poster, Cultural Theory and Poststructuralism, 7–8.
44. Poster, Cultural Theory and Poststructuralism, 31.
45. Poster, The Mode of Information, 130.
46. Poster, Cultural Theory and Poststructuralism, 15.
47. Poster, Cultural Theory and Poststructuralism, 28, 62.
48. Poster, Cultural Theory and Poststructuralism, 90.
49. Poster, Cultural Theory and Poststructuralism, 26.
50. Poster, The Mode of Information, 59; emphasis added.
51. Poster, The Mode of Information, 15.
52. Poster, The Mode of Information, 10.
53. Poster, The Second Media Age, 74.
54. Poster, The Second Media Age, 75.
55. Innis preferred Plato to Aristotle. The former, by transcribing dialogues, pre-
served the oral dialectic in the written form and thereby “opposed the establishment
of a finished system of dogma”—what Poster would term a “totalization.” Innis added
that Plato “would not surrender his freedom to his own books and refused to be bound
by what he had written.” See Harold Innis, Empire and Communications (1950; re-
vised by Mary Q. Innis, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972), 57. By contrast,
according to Innis, “in Aristotle the power of the spoken word declined sharply and
became a source of confusion. . . . The dead hand of the written tradition threatened
to destroy the spirit of Western man.” Harold Innis, “The Bias of Communication”
(1949; reprint, Harold A. Innis, The Bias of Communication, Toronto: University of
Toronto Press, 1972), 57. Cf. Ray Charron, “Postmodern Themes in Innis’s Works,”
in Harold Innis in the New Century, Harold Innis and the New Century: Reflections
and Refractions, edited by Charles Acland and W. Buxton, Montreal and Kingston:
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999), 309–21.
56. Eric Havelock, Harold A. Innis: A Memoir (Toronto: Harold Innis Foundation,
1982).
57. Alexander John Watson, Marginal Man: The Dark Vision of Harold Innis
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006), 291.