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Writing is a Technology

Writing is a technology, so integrated into our consciousness that we often forget. to transmit writing we must use tools

Three main texts: Orality and Literacy - Walter J. Ong "Writing is in a way the most drastic of the three technologies. It initiated what print and computers only continue, the reduction of dynamic sound to quiescent space, the separation of the word from the living present, where alone spoken words can exist."

Cybernetics and Ghosts - Italo Calvino Mankind is beginning to understand how to dismantle and reassemble the most complex and unpredictable of all its machines: language.

Art and Literacy - Luis Camnitzer ?