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How do we transmit culture when it cannot be put into words? | Aeon Essays
Here is where culture enters the picture. I mean“culture” in its anthropological rather than artisticsense. What values and practices can hold people to-gether as the institutions in which they live fragment? My generation suffered from a want of imagination inanswering this question, in advancing the virtues ofsmall-scale community. Co
... See morefrom The Culture of the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett
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- While writing would allow far more knowledge to be preserved and accessed, it would also relieve individuals of the burden of sustaining collective memory themselves. Like writing and print, our use of digital media ordinarily generates an archive (as well as a trail of data, often invisible to users but of great value to others). But although digi... See more
from The Analog City and the Digital City — The New Atlantis by L. M. Sacasas
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- Writing allowed for the durable storage of knowledge independently of human beings. Not only can written knowledge outlive a particular individual, it can outlive a whole culture.
from The Analog City and the Digital City — The New Atlantis by L. M. Sacasas
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