HUMA 1780 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cumulate Rock, Oral Tradition, Marshall Mcluhan
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Humanities lecture # 7 oral culture to written word. History of media: oral(speech,dance, music, writing (manuscript, mass (printing, radio, film, digital (internet, web, computer,picture) Can only work by looking back: ex. should we now consider mass print a digression in the history of media, ex. From perspective in future looking back: of regression, ex. Plato on writing and its detrimental effect on memory and living present: ex. Worries about television; social media, gaming: ex. From perspective in future looking back: no necessity to go through each media or technological stage to reach. Ong: primary orality (oral culture) and secondary orality (the oral in a literature culture with writing and print: want to understand change in our thought processes when we go from. Primary orality (communication in living present) to secondary orality(communicating and composing thoughts with writing technology or in literature culture: hard to let go of our literate" assumptions, ex. We take silent reading for granted: ex.
