SOC 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Lyceum Movement, Intertitle, Bsc Young Boys
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Walter ong interested in distinction between oral culture and literal culture. Absence of writing, the impossibility of writing. Cannot write anything down or look anything up. Words are sounds words have no visual presence. Sound exists only as it is going out of existence. Sound is dynamic, it has motion so if you want to stop the sound, u end up silencing it. If you try to capture the sound, it disappears. No way to freeze sound as it is happening in time. Words (as sounds) invested with power (cid:862)sound cannot be sounding without the use of power(cid:863) (50) Words are conceived different way there is no link btween words and sounds because u can write it down. On a flat surface (ex: printed words on paper) Thought in any extended form = impossible without rhythmically based expression/patterns. Registers interiority physical interior of object (ex. Diffused light on surfaces (cid:862)sight isolates, and sound incorporates(cid:863) (53)
