Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Joshua Foer, Proverb, Orality
29 Oct 2016
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Technology that become prevalent and the availability of literacy can make memorizing information redundant somewhere else (like in your phone) leaves you less scatterbrained. There is the idea that you can take things out of your brain and store it. Writing to your (cid:494)future-self(cid:495) happens when you take notes, write in journals, etc. Simonides of ceos, 5th century bc and the banquet-hall collapse. You construct a building in the imagination and you fill it with the images of what you need to recall. Spatial and visual: we are better at memorizing spatial and visual, better at memorizing faces than names, ex. Joshua foer wrote moonwalking with einsten, speaking about very detailed visuals to help remember things. They are illiterate; haven(cid:495)t been taught to read or write. Bhopas are seen as having powers, because of their capacity of memorization. Words are seen as evanescent events; they happen and then they are over,
