Print-capitalism, not colonial administration, made nations imaginable

Evidence

Our attention thus far has been focussed on the worlds of functionaries in the Americas – strategically important, but still small worlds. Moreover, they were worlds which, with their conflicts between peninsulares and creoles, predated the appearance of American national consciousnesses at the end of the eighteenth century. Cramped viceregal pilgrimages had no decisive consequences until their territorial stretch could be imagined as nations, in other words until the arrival of print-capitalism. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 233

Categorization

• XREF: Anchor claim for the whole theory — the pilgrimage/print-capitalism nexus is the scaffolding the Islamophobia readings will build on when discussing how communities get imagined and excluded. — connects to: Capitalism’s search for monoglot mass markets drove print vernacularization — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 175; Print-capitalism made the nation imaginable through production, technology, and linguistic diversity — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 184; Print alone is not revolutionary; capitalism is the decisive factor. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 207 (+4 more)

Related

• Print-capitalism made the nation imaginable through production, technology, and linguistic diversity (similarity 0.91)
• Technological and print-capitalism advances enabled imagining parallel lives across oceans (similarity 0.88)
• Print-capitalism emerged to re-link fraternity, power and time after cosmology split from history (similarity 0.88)
• Print alone is not revolutionary; capitalism is the decisive factor. (similarity 0.85)
• National consciousness developed before mass literacy and print capitalism (similarity 0.82)
• Capitalism’s search for monoglot mass markets drove print vernacularization (similarity 0.82)
• Novels and newspapers supplied the technical means to imagine the nation (similarity 0.82)
• Print capitalism’s sacral-vernacular split enabled nationalist imagination (similarity 0.82)
• The local resists globalization from within, with no fixed political content (similarity 0.82)
• National communities bore no determined relation to existing political borders (similarity 0.82)
• The Americas’ new republics first modeled what modern nations should look like (similarity 0.81)
• Nationalism emerged from printed shared narratives, not shared acquaintance (similarity 0.81)
• Print’s fixity of language produced the image of deep national antiquity (similarity 0.80)
• Material interests and Enlightenment ideas alone could not shape nationalist imagined communities. (similarity 0.79)
• Even apolitical market newspapers manufacture shared imagined community (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Print-capitalism emerged to re-link fraternity, power and time after cosmology split from history #expands (0.90) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 114
• Technological and print-capitalism advances enabled imagining parallel lives across oceans #expands (0.85) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 716
• Printing emphasized vernacular languages and divided the European intellectual mind #expands (0.80) — Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication, 804