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Socrates himself was famously on the other side of your position, an Oral Supremacist versus your Text Supremacist. Socrates argued that text is markedly inferior to oral information conveyance, precisely because text can't interact, it can't talk back.

Marc Andreessen • The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen - Interviewed by a Retard

They lose attention because many of their teachers have lost attention, shed it in the heat of a formation that narrowed intellectual excellence down to one kind of performance, one kind of white body-mind.

Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))

Robert Wright predicted one of its most important consequences. In his essay “Voice of America,” which appeared in the September 13, 1993, issue of the magazine the New Republic, Wright reported on his forays into Usenet, a set of online discussion groups

Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

We’ve adopted this new way of speaking to one another because it’s the only way to stay afloat in the flood of messages we have to deal with. But self-creation comes through language, through expressing yourself. By constantly compressing the way we speak, we’ve lost a lot of nuance, and I think we’ve also compressed ourselves in a way. And we’ve... See more

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Chomsky tenía décadas siendo otro pobre diablo con ideas antiquísimas en temas de Lingüística pero recuerdo con mucho cariño esta cacheteda con guante blanco porque explica muy bien por qué mucha gente cree lo que cree. DEP. . https://t.co/cyqcJ69CJ8

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The Mind of John McPhee

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Gordon surmised that the Pirahã provided support for a controversial hypothesis advanced early in the last century by Benjamin Lee Whorf, a student of Sapir’s. Whorf argued that the words in our vocabulary determine how we think. Since the Pirahã do not have words for numbers above two, Gordon wrote, they have a limited ability to work with... See more

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Un certain nombre de neuroscientifiques cognitifs, moi y compris, pensent que les linguistes conventionnels ont accordé trop d’importance aux aspects structuraux du langage.

Vilayanur Ramachandran • Le cerveau fait de l'esprit : Enquête sur les neurones miroirs (Quai des Sciences) (French Edition)

I feel comfortable in these spaces, but I don’t really understand the Asian kids who sit nearby. They, like all Berkeley students, wear lumpy Cal sweatshirts and mostly complain about schoolwork, but they also seem completely uninterested in making friends with people of other races or backgrounds. Their insularity always feels banal and