SMC219Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Spoken Language, Written Language, Mass Media
4 Nov 2012
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Modernity- the most effective way, powerful anchor, typographic culture. Language is man-made, creation of the mass, not an individual. Mass media like language has created an environment, land, place in the mind. Spoken language includes all senses- it is an operation that includes human nature as a whole, it is a way of enacting emotions. Human language is a reduction of our emotions/ desires. Artificial we have intervened to change something. Philosopher of the software language as the first software henri bergson . Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body mcluhan. *poetry a pure expression of ones creativity due to conscious creativity. Global village means everyone will understand everyone all speak the same language. Electric culture: new because of the nature itself in connecting the world at the same time in itself a change in condition impulse to have one single language is obvious one. Recognition of this particularly first medium of language.
