SMC219Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Alcuin, Motor Vehicle Theft, Typography
4 Nov 2012
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Misguided notion of determinism- to forecast as part of human nature as a continuum one will tell you exactly what you will get, where your actions will lead, another will be cyclical. Frye: there is nothing new under the sun shakespeare to everything there is a season = as we renew own life, we find something totally new- cyclical event = media. Media lead us to anticipate/ forecast just part of human nature in continuum we cannot forecast. Anticipation is never as perfect as we expected it to be. Collective language when turns into written is in need of other mass media. Spoken word- first technology- the difference between an object and its description. Object: something that exists because created by humans, object is humanized the moment it is. *form becomes the substance of media described/ framed in some form!
