Print-capitalism emerged to re-link fraternity, power and time after cosmology split from history

Evidence

The slow, uneven decline of these interlinked certainties, first in Western Europe, later elsewhere, under the impact of economic change, ‘discoveries’ (social and scientific), and the development of increasingly rapid communications, drove a harsh wedge between cosmology and history. No surprise then that the search was on, so to speak, for a new way of linking fraternity, power and time meaningfully together. Nothing perhaps more precipitated this search, nor made it more fruitful, than print-capitalism, which made it possible for rapidly growing numbers of people to think about themselves, and to relate themselves to others, in profoundly new ways. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 114

Categorization

• XREF: This is the core scaffolding mechanism — the cosmological-to-historical shift as precondition for imagining the nation — that later Islamophobia readings build on. — connects to: Technological and print-capitalism advances enabled imagining parallel lives across oceans — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 716; Capitalism’s search for monoglot mass markets drove print vernacularization — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 175; The printing press replaced cosmological symbolization with questions of confidence and trust (+5 more)
• DEFINE: Introduces ‘print-capitalism’ as a technical concept and its causal role.

Related

• Print-capitalism, not colonial administration, made nations imaginable (similarity 0.88)
• Technological and print-capitalism advances enabled imagining parallel lives across oceans (similarity 0.88)
• Print-capitalism made the nation imaginable through production, technology, and linguistic diversity (similarity 0.86)
• Print alone is not revolutionary; capitalism is the decisive factor. (similarity 0.86)
• Capitalism’s search for monoglot mass markets drove print vernacularization (similarity 0.80)
• Print’s fixity of language produced the image of deep national antiquity (similarity 0.80)
• Print capitalism’s sacral-vernacular split enabled nationalist imagination (similarity 0.80)
• Novels and newspapers supplied the technical means to imagine the nation (similarity 0.80)
• Even apolitical market newspapers manufacture shared imagined community (similarity 0.79)
• Imagined communities arose from the collapse of precapitalist temporal certainties, not just print capitalism (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Print-capitalism made the nation imaginable through production, technology, and linguistic diversity #expands (0.85) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 184
• Capitalism’s search for monoglot mass markets drove print vernacularization #expands (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 175
• The printing press replaced cosmological symbolization with questions of confidence and trust #corroborates (0.75)