Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Walkie-Talkie, Lowest Common Denominator, Photographic Plate
16 Nov 2016
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Sound exists only when it is going out of existence. Stop movement, you get nothing only silence. All sound especially oral utterance, is dynamic. Words tend to be out there" on a flat surface. Names do not give humans power over what they name. Oral culture has no texts: to think through something in non-formulaic, non-pattered, non-mnemonic terms, would be waste of time. Heavy patterning and communal fixed formulas in oral cultures serve purpose of writing in chirographic cultures. Telling stories and making speeches are among the most highly valued arts in traditional cultures. Subject of communication offers possibilities in that it occupies a crucial position in the organization and administration of government and in turn of empires and of western civilization. Cod fisheries were exploited over an extensive coastline: decentralization was inevitable. Monopoly of fur-trade by the hudson"s bay company.
