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45. Central to Adorno’s thought on the culture industry, after all, is that in capital-
ism exchange value replaces use value; items take on value by aiding capital accu-
mulation, as opposed to stemming from their intrinsic properties.
46. Bernstein, “Introduction,” 3.
47. Crook, “Introduction,” 13.
48. Alexander John Watson, Marginal Man: The Dark Vision of Harold Innis
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006), 163.
49. Harold A. Innis, “The Work of Thorstein Veblen” (1929; reprint, Essays in
Canadian Economic History, ed. Mary Q. Innis, Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
1956), 17–26.
50. Harold A. Innis, “A Critical Review” (1948; reprint, The Bias of Communica-
tion, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971), 190. Citing Ian Parker, Kamilla
Pietrzyk has suggested that Innisian media analysis can complement fundamentalist
Marxism by bridging the chasm between economic/material base and the sym-
bolic/cognitive superstructure through its emphasis on contending forces vying to
control the means of communication/means of indoctrination. Kamilla Pietrzyk, Exit
From the Myopic Social Movement Strategy in the Age of the Internet (M.A. Thesis,
Faculty of Information and Media Studies, The University of Western Ontario, 2007),
27. See also Ian Parker, “Innis, Marx, and the Economics of Communication,”
Queen’s Quarterly 84 (1977): 545–63.
51. Robert E. Babe, “Innis and the News,” Javnost–The Public 13, no. 3 (2006): 44.
52. Paul Heyer, Harold Innis (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers,
Inc., 2003), 52.
53. James W. Carey, “Culture, Geography, and Communications: The Work of
Harold Innis in an American Context,” in Culture, Communication and Dependency:
The Tradition of H. A. Innis, ed. William H. Melody, Liora Salter, and Paul Heyer
(Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corp, 1981), 80.
54. For example: David Crowley and Paul Heyer, eds., Communication and His-
tory: Technology, Culture and Society (5th edition, New York: Allyn and Bacon,
2007); Ian Angus, A Border Within (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s Univer-
sity Press, 1997); Ian Angus, Primal Scenes of Communication (New York: SUNY
Press, 2000); James Beniger, The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic
Origins of the Information Society (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1986); James W. Carey, Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society
(Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989); Ronald J. Deibert, Parchment, Printing, and Hyper-
media: Communication in the World Order Transformation (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1997); Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of
Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980); Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy:
Technologizing the Word (New York: Methuen, 1982); Marshall McLuhan, The
Gutenberg Galaxy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962); Heather Menzies,
No Time: Stress and the Crisis of Modern Life (Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre,
2005); Vincent Di Norcia, “Communications, Power and Time: An Innisian View,”
Canadian Journal of Political Science 13, no. 2 (1990): 336–57.