Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Clay Tablet, Phoenician Language, Socratic Method

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

Document Summary

The pen and the sword are the same thing. : you cannot have an empire (military power) without the pen. Literacy and the capacity to write work together with the sword. First instances of a writen language taking place in society. Was a clay tablet pictographic script that accounted for the amount of grain (commerce). Secular from other famous origins of wriing (bible). How we work more efecively as buyers and sellers. How to tax commercial shipments of goods. An economy that is expanding beyond the capacity of memory. Pictographic script: litle pictures that represent real life objects, the irst type of language wriing, only really works if everybody understands the meaning of the pictures. (eg. people from other coninents may not have potatoes). How do you move forward with pictographic wriing: sumerian rebus principle. A picture of a bee and a leaf = Does not correspond to concepts such as love and sadness.