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<div class="card"><DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT><div class="mw-parser-output"><h1><span class="mw-headline" id="technologising_the_word">technologising the word</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/mw-mediadesign/index.php?title=User:Simon/Technologising_the_word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: technologising the word">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h1>
<p>see also <a href="Reading_Writing.html" title="User:Simon/Reading Writing">reading/writing</a>, <a href="Understanding_texts.html" title="User:Simon/Understanding texts">understanding texts</a>
</p><p>According to the philosopher Vilém Flusser, history—in the traditional sense of a record of events—begins with writing. As such, writing created a linear, historical consciousness. This allowed us to see events as part of a process that is manipulable by humans, outside of divine intervention. Before the technology of writing, a propriocentric notion of the world dominated human consciousness; perceived through the senses, immediate and without what we think of as history, which comes from the ability to store memory in texts. Flusser adds that “Those who use texts to understand the world, those who conceive it, mean a world with a linear structure”.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup>
</p><p>In pre-literate cultures, such as in Ancient Greece, songs were stitched together into rhapsodies.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> Before literacy, texts existed as oratories, plays, epics, proclamations and dialogues; mostly oral forms. The nature of text is to knit together communication. In literate cultures texts become textiles, tapestries that form cultural narratives.
</p><p>Image: <i>The Rosetta Stone</i>, a tablet discovered in 1799, inscribed with three versions of a decree written in Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Greek
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1"></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Vilém Flusser The Future of Writing, from Flusser, V. and Ströhl, A. (2002) <i>Writings</i>. Electronic mediations v. 6. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2"></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Ong, W.J. and Hartley, J. (2012) <i>Orality and literacy: the technologizing of the word</i>. Orality and literacy. 30th anniversary ed.; 3rd ed. London; New York: Routledge.</span>
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