9/17/2015 mit20001 writing/print history mit2000
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Writing/Print History
MIT2000
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Origins of Writing: Sumeria
1. 3200BCE Mesopotamia
2. Accountancy: 1. economy
outstripping memory
3. Pictographic Script
Account of grain, bread, 3200BCE
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Sumerian
1. Rebus principle
2. Pictographic symbol used for phonetic value
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Sumerian/Cuneiform/Clay
1. Abstract Concepts1. Rel./legal/medical texts
2. Objects AND ideas
2. Cuneiform1. Pictography to formal
patterns
2. Ideographic and syllabic symbols
3. non-alphabetic
1400BCE
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Sumerian/Cuneiform/Clay
1. Cylinders on clay
1. personal stamps
2. Baked Clay Tablets
3. Trade/Commerce
4. Time-biased medium
1400BCE
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Spread of Writing
3200 BCE Sumeria 3000BCE Egypt– Hieroglyphics (hieratic/demotic scripts)
2500BCE Indus Valley (India/Pakistan)1200BCE China600BCE Central America (Mayans)Pictographic/schematic scripts
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Writing: Alphabetic
Phoenicians– 1500 BCE– 22 letters
Hebrew, Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, Bengali– Indo-European
(Romance, Germanic, Slavic, Indonesian)
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Phonetic/Pictographic/Schematic
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Greek Alphabet/Writing
1. Adapt Phoenician alphabet (vowels)1. 1000-200BCE
2. Easier to read/write
3. Precise meanings
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Ancient Greece (500-100 BCE)
1. Craft to Democratic Literacy
2. Devalue memorization
3. New statements/ novel ideas
4. Eric Havelock:1. “pre-philosophical, pre-
literary, pre-scientific”
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Writing (Ancient Greece)
1. Objectify texts
2. Disembodiment
3. Abstraction deductive logic,
rational philosophy, abstract science
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Literacy/Orality: Greek Ideal
Innis
-Oral Tradition
-Alphabetic Literacy
-brake on knowledge monopolies
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Writing/Limitations
1. Scarcity/expense writing material
1. stone, clay, papyrus, parchment
2. “Calligraphy as enemy of literacy”
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Scribal Culture
1. Scriptoria1. Dark/Middle Ages
600-1400 AD
2. Book Production
3. Hand copying
4. Parchment
5. Dictation
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Scribal Culture
1. Hybrid:1. writing/orality
2. Holy Scripture
3. “Name of the Rose” (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU-bTRWt5QU
Lay Stationers (1200s-)
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Oral Society (Middle Ages)
1. Legal proceedings
2. Aura of Spoken Word
1. Letters read aloud
2. Spoken Prayers
3. Logographic & Phonographic
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Printing Press (1450s)
1. Johann Gutenberg (ca. 1400- 1468)
2. Wooden Hand press
3. Moveable Type
4. Paper (rag-based)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksLaBnZVRnM
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Gutenberg Bible (1455)
42-Line Biblehttp://www.newad
vent.org/images/05286aax.jpg
Print Runs (200-1000 copies)
Bibles/rel. poetry
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Impact of Printing
1. Reduce costs; speed production
2. Greater quantity/ dissemination
3. Latin to Vernacular
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Impact of Printing
1. Piety/Pornography2. Reformation,
1517-16481. Martin Luther2. Printed pamphlets
3. Press: “God’s highest gift of grace”
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Impact of Printing (Eisenstein)
1. Hearing Public1. Communal
1. binding
2. Local embrace
3. Direct participation
4. Pulpit News
5. Religious(?)
1. Reading Public1. Atomistic
1. fragmenting
2. Distant embrace
3. Vicarious partic.1. Imagined
Communities
4. Printed news
5. Secular(?)
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Space-Biased Media (Innis)
1. Dialectic1. liberty & monopolies of knowledge
2. Printing Press
2. Desirable Balance: 1. time/space
2. centrifugal/centripetal
3. democratic society
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Continued Orality
1. Typography 1. “conveyed to the ear, not the eye”
2. Book learning: oral/literate hybrid1. Pervasive illiteracy2. minstrel shows, ballads, poetry readings3. village reader4. sermons5. lectures6. coffee houses, salons
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8 MILE (2002)
1. Hip Hop
2. “The Dozens”
3. Orality
4. Liveness
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