Orality, the book, and the computer: What happens to 'literature'?
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Orality, the book, and the computer: What happens to 'literature'?
what I fear they’ll miss is not literature’s beauty but its resistance. The way it trains the mind to slow down, to reflect, to tolerate ambiguity. To reside in the discomfort of the interstitial and be ok with it. The way it sharpens perception by refusing to simplify. The world they are entering is freighted with superficiality and false certaint... See more
Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us
“What is the place of reading, and of the reading sensibility, in our culture as it has become?”
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
In orality, a person is immersed in the “here-and-now” situation. In literacy, a person is detached from the environment and focused on inner vision—contemplation.