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58. Harold Innis, “The Role of Intelligence: Some Further Thoughts,” Canadian
Journal of Economics and Political Science 1 (August 1935): 280–88.
59. Edward J. Urwick, “The Role of Intelligence in the Social Process,” Canadian
Journal of Economics and Political Science 1 (February 1935): 76.
60. “The sediment of experience,” Innis wrote, “provides the basis for scientific
investigation.” He added that “the habits or biases of individuals which permit pre-
diction are reinforced in the cumulative bias of institutions and constitute [or should
constitute] the chief interest of the social scientist.” Innis, “The Role of Intelligence,”
284.
61. See chapter 4.
62. Harold A. Innis, Changing Concepts of Time (1952; reprint, with Introduction
by James W. Carey, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004), vi.
63. Innis generally used the phrase, “the mechanization of knowledge,” as short-
hand for the technology that facilitated growth of information (“useful facts”) and the
concomitant normalization of acritical, unreflexive intellectual pursuits driven for-
ward by mostly commercial and administrative interests.
64. Innis, “Minerva’s Owl” (1947; reprint, Harold Innis, The Bias of Communica-
tion, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971), 31.
65. Mark Poster, The Information Subject (Amsterdam: G and B Arts International,
2001), 103.