Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rosetta Stone, Chisel, Episteme

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Try to imagine what it would be like to live in an age where spoken word was the only media/medium that existed . Media that emphasize time are those that are durable in character, such as parchment, clay and stone. The heavy materials are suited to the development of architecture and sculpture. Media that emphasize space are apt to be less durable and light in character, such as papyrus and paper. The latter are suited to wide areas of administration and trade . Large-scale political organizations, such as empires must be considered from the standpoint of two dimensions, those of space and time, and persist by overcoming the bias of media which over-emphasize either dimension. )nnis asked these questions as (cid:498)what are the things space-biased societies. )nnis was (cid:498)concerned with the capacity of a society to recognize and resolve crises(cid:499) (cid:523)comor, (cid:884)(cid:890)(cid:885)(cid:524) Kuruk etra war and the fates of the kaurava and the p ava.

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