m of care – may 23 24
late to zoom.. so missed rachel.. will catch when video comes out
only able to type 1 finger. so also better notes.. well notes at all.. later
links shared:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Leontief].. oi
[https://x.com/CrisisReports]
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Innis].. oi.. and..
McLuhan built on Innis’s idea that in studying the effects of communications media, technological form mattered more than content. Biographer Paul Heyer writes that Innis’s concept of the “bias” of a particular medium of communication can be seen as a “less flamboyant precursor to McLuhan’s legendary phrase ‘the medium is the message.'” Innis, for example, tried to show how printed media such as books or newspapers were “biased” toward control over space and secular power, while engraved media such as stone or clay tablets were “biased” in favour of continuity in time and metaphysical or religious knowledge. McLuhan focused on what may be called a medium’s “sensory bias” arguing, for example, that books and newspapers appealed to the rationality of the eye, while radio played to the irrationality of the ear. The differences in the Innisian and McLuhanesque approaches were summarized by the late James W. Carey:
Both McLuhan and Innis assume the centrality of communication technology; where they differ is in the principal kinds of effects they see deriving from this technology. Whereas Innis sees communication technology principally affecting social organization and culture, McLuhan sees its principal effect on sensory organization and thought. McLuhan has much to say about perception and thought but little to say about institutions; Innis says much about institutions and little about perception and thought.
As scholars and teachers, Innis and McLuhan shared a similar dilemma since both argued that book culture tended to produce fixed points of view and homogeneity of thought; yet both produced many books. In his introduction to the 1964 reprint of The Bias of Communication, McLuhan marvelled at Innis’s technique of juxtaposing “his insights in a mosaic structure of seemingly unrelated and disproportioned sentences and aphorisms.” McLuhan argued that although that made reading Innis’s dense prose difficult (“a pattern of insights that are not packaged for the consumer palate”), Innis’s method approximated “the natural form of conversation or dialogue rather than of written discourse.” Best of all, it yielded “insight” and “pattern recognition” rather than the “classified knowledge” so overvalued by print-trained scholars. “How exciting it was to encounter a writer whose every phrase invited prolonged meditation and exploration,” McLuhan added. McLuhan’s own books with their reliance on aphorisms, puns, quips, “probes” and oddly juxtaposed observations also employ that mosaic technique.
Innis’s theories of political economy, media and society remain highly relevant: he had a profound influence on critical media theory and communications and, in conjunction with McLuhan, offered groundbreaking Canadian perspectives on the function of communication technologies as key agents in social and historical change. Together, their works advanced a theory of history in which communication is central to social change and transformation
[https://lucasplan.org.uk/about-us/]
The Lucas Plan was a pioneering effort by workers at the arms-related company Lucas Aerospace, in the 1970s, to defend their jobs by proposing alternative, socially-useful applications of the company’s technology and their own skills. The Plan became internationally famous and sparked a movement for socially useful production, as well as helping to save jobs at Lucas Aerospace.
Members of the New Lucas Plan network include trade unionists, former members of the Lucas Aerospace Combine Shops Stewards Committee, radical scientists, environmentalists, peace organisations and other sponsors of the 40th Anniversary conference.
The overall aim of our work is to create a new economy that serves genuine social and individual needs, including the need for livelihoods, and respects environmental limits.
In order to achieve that, in the spirit of the Lucas Plan, the economy must be subject to bottom-up democratic planning at local to national levels.
[https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ian-hewitt-a3751259]Educationalist and campaigner
Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Campaigner and organiser
New Lucas Plan.. Promote Human-centred systems and socially useful production in the 21 century learning from the experience of the Lucas Workers
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