Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Phoenician Alphabet, Gutenberg Bible, Eric A. Havelock
17 Feb 2014
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Picture of guy trying to memorize things, for usa memory championship: memory is not as important as it was 2000 years ago. Picture of 12 file folders with each month to remember things: rely on paper system to help remember things in the future. Taking notes = reliable source to remember things. Memory palace: childhood homes, architectural digest, visually picture things to remember, construct memory palaces to remember things. Not good at memorizing names and numbers. Spatially lay out things we don"t remember into memory palaces: make them memorable in a weird way. Epic poems of rajasthan: oral tradition, bhopas, poets, they have epic poems, epic poems, mohabharto (cid:224) 100,000 stanzas, dev narayan. Poems have carried on for thousands of years. Endurance of epic poems: seen as sacred telling the stories, healing powers. Challenge to oral tradition: literacy, those who learned to read had a harder time memorizing, mass media makes it harder to remember.
