To him [Havelock] the basic shift from oral to literate culture was a slow process; for centuries, despite the existence of writing, Greece remained essentially an oral culture. This culture was one which depended heavily on the encoding of information in poetic texts, to be learned by rote and to provide a cultural encyclopedia of conduct. It was not until the age of Plato in the fourth century that the dominance of poetry in an oral culture was challenged in the final triumph of literacy.
That challenge came in the form of philosophy, among other things, and poetry has never recovered its cultural primacy. What oral poetry was for the Greeks, printed books in general are for us. But our historical moment, which we might call "proto-electronic," will not require a transition period of two centuries. The very essence of electronic transmissions is to surmount impedances and to hasten transitions. Fifty years, I'm sure, will suffice.
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Other ways to use a book - Ideas - The Boston Globe - 0 views
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some echoes of electracy--"history and theory of reading/writing"
The Way We Live Now - I Tweet, Therefore I Am - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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a great article that Esau has recently blogged about and that speaks to our ongoing conversation about selfhood in electracy
Opinion: We have an empathy problem | Polygon - 0 views
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relevant to yesterday's class. "In a way, this act of dismissal could be construed as furthering the conversation, for how many questions it raises: Is it more harmful to analyze a work than it is to dismiss its critics? Is creating a public work an act of submission to critical analysis? When we make things, do they transfer out of our ownership? Where do we draw the line between creator and creation? We can (and will, I hope) pursue these threads, but at the root of all this is an attempt to cut off a branch of discussion."
remixthebook - 1 views
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just rediscovered this "book" or collection of "books."
The Silent History - 1 views
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A novel released in 1500 word segments each day through an iphone application. Part of the work can only be read if physically in the geolocation which coordinates with the text. These optional side stories, called "field reports", are tied back into the larger narrative. They are written in relation to the surroundings which they are placed, so the reader is getting visual cues by the setting. By Matthew Derby. He is also the senior interface designer for Harmonix.
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This is pretty cool! Another Emerson VMA student, Frank Horton, had a start up company that was attempting to do something similar to this idea.
Imaging Place: John Craig Freeman - 1 views
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in case this isn't in our library of links/on our radar....
Why Johnny and Janey Can't Read, and Why Mr. and Ms. Smith Can't Teach: The Challenge o... - 0 views
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This was mentioned in Nicholas Carr's book THE SHALLOWS: WHAT THE INTERNET IS DOING TO OUR BRAINS
Miami Virtue and the Ulmer Tapes - 0 views
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This is the work that Ulmer was mentioning last night.... It was just released!
If we couldn't read - Books - The Boston Globe - 0 views
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article in today's Globe mentions grammatologists Ong and Havelock
What is the Internet Doing to our Brains? - YouTube - 0 views
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an answer to the Nicholas Carr book of similar (sub)title...
Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year's End - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Google Heads-Up Display Glasses Are Coming by the End of 2012 - 0 views
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why we should all drop everything and learn how to create content for augmented reality...
Elegy for Theory | PopMatters - 0 views
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a friend (who was a former student of Ulmer's) posted this to me and said that "it reminds me of elementary Ulmer pedagogy"
Sven Birkerts: The Gutenberg Elegies - 0 views
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Notice the Ulmer-like analogy comparing oral poetry to books...Also the note of how long these transitions can take....
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The Twitter Trap - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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