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Richard Smyth

Sven Birkerts: The Gutenberg Elegies - 0 views

  • 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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      Notice the Ulmer-like analogy comparing oral poetry to books...Also the note of how long these transitions can take....
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This is Your Brain on eBooks « Agnostic, Maybe - 0 views

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    This blog post mentions the "method of loci" which is another name for the "Memory Palace" tradition that we are exploring. There's also a link to a TED talk about spatial processing in the brain.
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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
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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
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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...
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