diff --git a/notes/Ong_Orality_and_Literacy/Ong_Orality_and_Literacy_notes.md b/notes/Ong_Orality_and_Literacy/Ong_Orality_and_Literacy_notes.md index a6a5fe0..3e891b2 100644 --- a/notes/Ong_Orality_and_Literacy/Ong_Orality_and_Literacy_notes.md +++ b/notes/Ong_Orality_and_Literacy/Ong_Orality_and_Literacy_notes.md @@ -1,6 +1,24 @@ -# Notes from Ong, W.J. and Hartley, J. (2012) *Orality and literacy: the technologizing of the word*. Orality and literary. 30th anniversary ed.; 3rd ed. London ; New York: Routledge. +# Notes from Ong, W.J. and Hartley, J. (2012) *Orality and literacy: the technologizing of the word*. Orality and literacy. 30th anniversary ed.; 3rd ed. London ; New York: Routledge. -## Introduction +## Synopsis + +Early media theory discourse centred around studies of the shift from oral to literate cultures, explored in the work of scholars such as Eric A. Havelock and Milman Parry. + +### Introduction (pg 3) "The electronic age is also an age of 'secondary orality', the orality of telephones, radio and television, which depends on writing and print for its existence." +### 3 - Some Psychodynamics of Orality + +(pg 32) "Sound exists only when it is going out of existence... If I stop the movement of sound, I have nothing – only silence, no sound at all." + +chirographic & typographic cultures see names as labels - written or printed tags applied to objects + +(pg 33) "Oral folk have no sense of a name as a tag, for they have no idea of a name as something that can be seen. Written or printed representations of words can be labels; real, spoken words cannot be." + +knowing = ability to recall +e.g. to say that you know Euclidean geometry is to mean that you can recall it from memory readily, not that it is fully present in your mind at all times. + +the absence of writing forces thinkers to "think memorable thoughts" (pg 34) - devising mnemonic patterns and formulas to store thoughts +(pg 34) "Mnemonic needs determine even syntax" +