Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Architectural Digest, Sumer, Cultural Homogenization

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G
• Professor: Daniel Robinson

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It"s hard to trust your memory 24/7, by taking notes in class for example you know you have notes from prior classes to study. By training your memory you are capable of memorizing anything. Create pictures in your brain and attach them to things (cid:2) (cid:2) Simonides of ceos, 5th century bc: banquet hall collapse. Memory palace: childhood homes, etc, architectural digest. Peter of ravenna talked about having thousands of memory palaces in his mind, different chambers, pull out a quote or statement (cid:2) We are much better at remembering faces than names. Putting memorable images in those memory palaces, making them funny, crude, weird, so you can remember (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) Epic poems of rajasthan: oral tradition, bhopas, epic poems. These poems have carried on largely through oral tradition. Endurance of epic poems: sacred works, healing powers. Challenge to oral tradition: literacy, other media.