Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Final: exam notes 2000.docx

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

Document Summary

Sound has a special relationship to time exists only when it"s going out of existence. Language is a mode of action not just a countersign of thought. Names convey power over things without knowing names you"re powerless. Oral folk have no sense of names as tags cannot be seen only spoken. No texts no way to produce same thought as before. Have to do thinking in mnemonic patterns highly rhythmic. Law is enshrined in formulaic sayings, proverbs. Society highly regards wise old men and women. Writing and print downgrade the figures of the wise. Aboriginal people fundamental to growth of canadian institutions through culture and politics. Assertion of aboriginal sense of self and sense of place. In the modern age time seems to be a fixed measure of not quite infinite proportions. Space is more vague, seems definitive can transcend the limitations of space. Time and space vary on the society and time period.