Some Psychodynamics of Orality

Explores the psychodynamics of primary oral cultures, emphasizing the unique characteristics of oral thought, memory, language, and communication shaped by the ephemeral nature of sound compared to written expression.

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In a primary oral culture, to solve effectively the problem of retaining and retrieving carefully articulated thought, you have to do your thinking in mnemonic patterns, shaped for ready oral recurrence. Your thought must come into being in heavily rhythmic, balanced patterns, in repetitions or antitheses, in alliterations and assonances, in... See more

Orality and Literacy by Walter J. Ong

What defines orality as a cognitive and cultural trait is not vocal performance, but its opposition to literacy, which forms the dichotomy “environmental/tribal immersion vs. detachment.” Similar to the condition of primary orality, digital media enable environmental immersion.

Andrey Mir • The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution

Deeply typographic folk forget to think of words as primarily oral, as events, and hence as necessarily powered: for them, words tend rather to be assimilated to things, ‘out there’ on a flat surface. Such ‘things’ are not so readily associated with magic, for they are not actions, but are in a radical sense dead, though subject to dynamic... See more