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205. Innis, “A Critical Review,” 190; also, Harold A. Innis, “Adult Education and
Universities,” 203.
206. Harold A. Innis, Political Economy in the Modern State (Toronto: The Ryer-
son Press, 1946), 4.
207. Innis, “A Plea for Time,” 64.
208. Innis, “A Plea for Time,” 89.
209. See Philip A. Massolin, “Academic Modernization and the Decline of Higher
Learning: The University Question in the Later Scholarship of Harold Innis,” Cana-
dian Journal of Communication 23, no. 1 (1998) www.cjc-online.ca/viewarticle
.php?id=445 (accessed Dec. 15, 2007).
210. Innis, “A Plea for Time,” 90.
211. Innis, “A Plea for Time,” 88; emphasis added.
212. Stamps, Unthinking Modernity. Actually, Stamps’ project was somewhat
larger, linking Innis and McLuhan on the one hand with Adorno and Walter Benjamin
on the other.
213. Cook, The Culture Industry Revisited, 12.
214. Innis, “Minerva’s Owl,” 29.
215. He adds, “or of assessing the quality of a culture of which we are not a part.”
Innis, “Industrialism and Cultural Values,” 132.
216. Horkheimer and Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 25.
217. Innis declared: “But always the university must foster the search for truth and
in its search must always question the pretentions of organized power whether in the
hands of church or state. . . . It will also insist that any group which pretends to have
found the truth is a fraud against civilization and that it is the search for truth and not
truth which keeps civilization alive.” Harold Innis, “The Canadian Situation” (1940,
1952), quoted in Robin Neill, A New Theory of Value, 90.
218. Kenneth Lux, Adam Smith’s Mistake: How a Moral Philosopher Invented
Economics and Ended Morality (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1990).
219. Richard S. Ruderman, “Odysseus and the Possibility of Enlightenment,”
American Journal of Political Science 43, no. 1 (January 1999): 138–61.
220. Theodor Adorno, Negative Dialectics (1966), trans. Dennis Redmond, 315,
www.efn.org/~dredmond/ndtrans.html (accessed Dec. 15, 2007).
221. Innis, “Industrialism and Cultural Values,” 190. One seldom thinks of Ray-
mond Williams, inaugurator of British cultural studies, as expressing apocalyptic
views, but that is precisely how he ended his first book: “A knot is tied, that has come
near to strangling our whole common life, in this century. We live in almost over-
whelming danger, at a peak of our apparent control. We react to the danger by at-
tempting to take control, yet still we have to unlearn, as the price of survival, the in-
herent dominative mode.” Raymond Williams, Culture and Society 1780–1950 (1958;
reprint, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984), 321.