Please look at Seth, Levi, Jennifer the Charmed, and Jennifer's awesome blogs.
Question for the class: how can we regain the qualities of orality?
Spend some time looking at either Camillo, Bruno, or Lull's system of memory for next blog.
This is a complex business, diagramming your brain.
Your final presentation of your musey room should not be an exploration of it, but rather an iniating of the class into its secrets. It should include at least a dozen different items, none of which have been memorized previously for this class. What is the artwork going on in your musey room?
Informed--facts are integral in the formation of the soul. Psyche=soul
Freud: personal, remember everything that ever happened to you
Yung: transpersonal, remember everything that happened to everyone else--the collective unconscious
The people you fall in love with takes on archetypes and mythology
Our personal life historically catalogued is nothing unless connected to these larger themes and images
Remember vs. Re-member: to put the pieces back together
The source: atom vs Adam.
Bruno is everywhere in Joyce's novel Finnegan's Wake--the freethinker well out of the box of Western thought.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Notes 3-7
Over the break: please choose one of the people whose memory systems are described in detail by Yates (Camillo, Bruno, Lull) and write about your sense of how this memory theater works.
Musey Room Presentation April 16--you are not simply introducing us, but inducting us into the mysteries of your musey room and its mystic, magic, spirituality.
An updated syllabus will be emailed.
Look at Tearful Tristian's blog.
The oral tradition is copious and redundant while the literate tradition values simplicity and directness (the social system rewards writing in this way. However, there is value in exploring writing using oral values)
There are no rules, just to know what rule you are breaking.
Look at John Crowley's "Little, Big"--the further in you go, the bigger it gets. Influenced by the works of Yates (magical sense of reality rather than a "real" reality)
Read "Engine Summer"
By reading, your life has been added to, extended.
How can you use literacy to reclaim aspects of the oral tradition that have been lost with the onset of literate culture?
Goal: To become truthful speakers, to make words like glass so the face comes through--to create transparency.
What does it mean to speak truthfully?
Musey Room Presentation April 16--you are not simply introducing us, but inducting us into the mysteries of your musey room and its mystic, magic, spirituality.
An updated syllabus will be emailed.
Look at Tearful Tristian's blog.
The oral tradition is copious and redundant while the literate tradition values simplicity and directness (the social system rewards writing in this way. However, there is value in exploring writing using oral values)
There are no rules, just to know what rule you are breaking.
Look at John Crowley's "Little, Big"--the further in you go, the bigger it gets. Influenced by the works of Yates (magical sense of reality rather than a "real" reality)
Read "Engine Summer"
By reading, your life has been added to, extended.
How can you use literacy to reclaim aspects of the oral tradition that have been lost with the onset of literate culture?
Goal: To become truthful speakers, to make words like glass so the face comes through--to create transparency.
What does it mean to speak truthfully?
Notes 3-5
Secondary orality will be on the test--reclaiming some qualities of the oral world
All things move in the direction of perfecting itself--the tragic drama
Aristotle: Euripides was the most tragic, but Sophocles, the author of the Oedipus trilogy was the greatest because he gave us the definition of tragedy
Lacuna--an unfilled space or internal gap
The detective story is an example of a linear novel
Exposition--Rising--Climax--Falling--Denouement
Episodic: The Odyssey and The Iliad--loosely connected parts or events
The literate world has "one correct version of the story", while the oral has no single, coherent truth for any story. Piling of stories upon stories.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a wide variety of things to be experienced.
Peter Ramus-took out all the images in the memory system
Hermetic tradition and the guide of souls--the psychopompous (psyche=soul)
Memory and imagination: Hermetic-through metamorphosis and alchemy, the purification of the soul.
Naustic notion--drug down into the world and forget everything
"The Alchemist", "The Man Who Fell to Earth"--fall into forgetfulness by the distractions of the Earth. Sex, drugs, rock and roll...
Literacy literally means letter.
All things move in the direction of perfecting itself--the tragic drama
Aristotle: Euripides was the most tragic, but Sophocles, the author of the Oedipus trilogy was the greatest because he gave us the definition of tragedy
Lacuna--an unfilled space or internal gap
The detective story is an example of a linear novel
Exposition--Rising--Climax--Falling--Denouement
Episodic: The Odyssey and The Iliad--loosely connected parts or events
The literate world has "one correct version of the story", while the oral has no single, coherent truth for any story. Piling of stories upon stories.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a wide variety of things to be experienced.
Peter Ramus-took out all the images in the memory system
Hermetic tradition and the guide of souls--the psychopompous (psyche=soul)
Memory and imagination: Hermetic-through metamorphosis and alchemy, the purification of the soul.
Naustic notion--drug down into the world and forget everything
"The Alchemist", "The Man Who Fell to Earth"--fall into forgetfulness by the distractions of the Earth. Sex, drugs, rock and roll...
Literacy literally means letter.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Notes 2-22
For friday, please blog a multiple choice question from Moonwalking with Enstein, Yates 1-4, Ong, class discussion/blogs.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Notes 2-15
Memory Presentations start next class period! From the bottom of the alphabet up.
notion of many scripts but one alphabet
Writing restructures consciousness
bloriate--talk at length, especially in an inflated or empty way
Difference between script and alphabet:
Script is picture language (ex: Egyptian hieroglyphs)--aesthetically rich
Alphabet is connected to units of sound (Phonetician invention)
Hebrew language with vowels (DR MTHR, SND MNY: still readable)
Vico said: the best language was images, the language of the Gods--and then we descend into language of aristocracy, then the language of money
Rhetoric used to refer to purely oral speech, now refers almost exclusively to writing.
What kind of writing activates right brain?
Memory becomes a part of virtues (prudence)--not to connect with the divine, but as an aid to help you avoid problems that will happen to you
Bosch--painting of what will happen to you in the after life if you are not patient and virtuous
please see alphabetgoddess website for timeline
The primary religion of humankind is the female who creates all by herself, but with literacy--turned upside down
Woman creates world by herself, man speaks it into being (And God said)
Greek--word for speech is logos (logic) creative ordering principle of the world--the right brain.
"The Enigma of Kasper Hauser": boy raised in Germany without speech (a similar example "Wild Child")
If you get a chance, watch "Cave of Forgotten Dreams"
Literate language is a fall from grace. We learn to forget, we learn to remember and another kind of consciousness comes into being
Read Nick's blog--Goddess and the earth. Agriculture brings the plow to the earth, rapes Goddess
notion of many scripts but one alphabet
Writing restructures consciousness
bloriate--talk at length, especially in an inflated or empty way
Difference between script and alphabet:
Script is picture language (ex: Egyptian hieroglyphs)--aesthetically rich
Alphabet is connected to units of sound (Phonetician invention)
Hebrew language with vowels (DR MTHR, SND MNY: still readable)
Vico said: the best language was images, the language of the Gods--and then we descend into language of aristocracy, then the language of money
Rhetoric used to refer to purely oral speech, now refers almost exclusively to writing.
What kind of writing activates right brain?
Memory becomes a part of virtues (prudence)--not to connect with the divine, but as an aid to help you avoid problems that will happen to you
Bosch--painting of what will happen to you in the after life if you are not patient and virtuous
please see alphabetgoddess website for timeline
The primary religion of humankind is the female who creates all by herself, but with literacy--turned upside down
Woman creates world by herself, man speaks it into being (And God said)
Greek--word for speech is logos (logic) creative ordering principle of the world--the right brain.
"The Enigma of Kasper Hauser": boy raised in Germany without speech (a similar example "Wild Child")
If you get a chance, watch "Cave of Forgotten Dreams"
Literate language is a fall from grace. We learn to forget, we learn to remember and another kind of consciousness comes into being
Read Nick's blog--Goddess and the earth. Agriculture brings the plow to the earth, rapes Goddess
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Notes 2-13
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.
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.
Monday, February 13, 2012
One liners from Ong
A literate person can never fully recover a sense of what the word is to purely oral people (12)
Sound exists only as it is going out of existence (32)
Think memorable thoughts (34)
Writing separates the knower from the known...(45)
You find what color bears are by looking at them. (52)
Judgement bears in on the individual from outside, not from within (54)
Sight isolates, sound incorporates (71)
The centering action of sound...affects man's sense of the cosmos (72)
Corinthians 3:6 "The letter kills but the spirit gives it life" (80)
Technologies are artificial but artificiality is natural to human beings (82)
Sound exists only as it is going out of existence (32)
Think memorable thoughts (34)
Writing separates the knower from the known...(45)
You find what color bears are by looking at them. (52)
Judgement bears in on the individual from outside, not from within (54)
Sight isolates, sound incorporates (71)
The centering action of sound...affects man's sense of the cosmos (72)
Corinthians 3:6 "The letter kills but the spirit gives it life" (80)
Technologies are artificial but artificiality is natural to human beings (82)
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