Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Marshall Mcluhan, Mnemonic, Movable Type
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Havelock, the literate revolution in greece and its cultural consequences. Greek leters began to be inscripted in about 700bc. Invented literacy and the literate basis of modern thought (10) invented literacy and the literate basis of modern thought. The greeks introduced the skill of reading to young children, during the ime when they were learning their oral vocabulary, in order to make this skill a relex. Script became a psychological skill that, once learned, became a relex. This task proved to be rather diicult because it depended upon the schools to teach in an organized manner. A true alphabet could only become operaive when its components were robbed of any independent meaning whatever, in order to become converible into a mechanical mnemonic device . The texts that we read" today are actually an acousic transcripion of oral speech that has been writen down. The alphabet as a mnemonic device used verbal and musical rhythm in order to remember statements.