For next meeting: read Yates Ch. 2
If you get a chance, read Art Bingham's review of Ong's Orality and Literacy
Exam is February 22
Go to Rio's blog to watch Waking Life online
(pg 36) Yates: entire history of memory, Platonic information--importance is beyond the mere experience of it
anamnesis: the remembering of things from a supposed previous existence
According to Plato, you already possess all the information you need to know: you just need to remember it.
The true function of rhetoric is to persuade men of the knowledge of the truth (Plato's Phaedrus)
All knowledge and learning is to recollect the true forms.
Sound envelopes while sight isolates.
Follow Tia and Nick's blog examples--please don't see this as schoolwork, but become obsessed with something. Say the ant things--the cliches--to survive daily life, but find a way to get off antpilot (or autopilot) by becoming obsessed.
If you get a chance, read The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin: Australian dream quest, singing up the land--the landscape they roam through is a musical score
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