8. Characteristics of orality? I Additive rather than subordinative (ii) Aggregative rather than analytic (iii) Redundant or copious
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9. iv) Conservative or traditionalist (v) Close to the human lifeworld (vi) Agonistically toned (vii) Emphatic and participatory
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10 All observations here on orality/literacy & glosses on work of Walter Ong -- please excuse broad generalizations. Will qualify later.
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11. As per Ong (& McLuhan) advent of literacy changed mental habits of oral universe.
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12. Literacy is linear, relatively fixed, analytical, abstract, interior. These generalizations can be qualified but useful ideal types
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13. Again, as per McLuhan/Ong, end of long Gutenberg era (circa 1500-1950) means return of orality in technological forms.
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14. For McLuhan/Ong, post-literate culture (or "post-text") means using technology to recover many traits of orality ("secondary orality")
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15. So one feature of "post-text" world is works that borrow from orality -- twitter, for example, which has elements of conversation.
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16. The post-literate (or post-textual) is NOT the same as the illiterate.
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17. The illiterate is someone who can't read. The post-literate is someone who can read but prefers to get information by other means.
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18. Literacy absorbed orality (Homer/Socrates/Jesus got written down). Post-literacy will absorb literacy.
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19. Post-textual is not the same as non-textual. Post-texts often involve fusion of text with images/sounds or other non-textual matter.
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20. George Takei & his assistants are good example of post-textual communications: those word/image concoctions that go viral on Facebook
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