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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21. The element of text in post-textual works isn't just residual: post-texts often work best as distillations of textual arguments.
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22. What post-texts can't do: so far, we haven't seen post-texts that can make sustained, linear, abstract argument (i.e. Piketty)
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23. Only the textual world can give us something like Piketty. So far, all post-texts can do is distill & popularize Piketty.
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24. If we thing of post-texts as being a genre or form, what characteristics define it?
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