Test on February 27th
Please find a one liner from Ong to add to the list for next class
Look at Tristian and Nick's blogs
Presentations will start Friday from the bottom of the alphabet up.
Nick's blog: Calvin and Hobbes--stuffed tiger that becomes real in imaginal space but in writing turns into mere toy.
With the rise of literacy, we have put away childish things
Memorable thoughts encompass all senses.
People in oral tradition have multiple words for things we have two or three for (for example, "snow"--things that the culture is intimately interested in)
In the oral tradition, there is a lack of interiority and self reflection--not as rich an interior life as literates, who have internalized the writing technology
(pg 80) Ong: All three texts tell same story--dialogue from Phadrus--the account of the Egyptian invention of writing and Socrates resulting horror
How does writing restructure consciousness?
In the oral tradition, dreams are important--psychically real.
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