Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Third Day of Individual Presentations

Chris of Laughing Rats - Kabala and Oral Traditions - A Word is a thing, the letters define that thing

Wise Wandering Shannon - Oral Traditions with the deaf people - History of sign language - Every letter looks like greek alphabet, more like writing rather than oral... but reading lips and gestures are hugely oral tradition

Check Mark Parker - Big Box of Goodies - Convey Meaning by building off past language and the evolution of it - Order out of Chaos

*** (The Degree to which you are text bound is also the degree to which you are seperated from all others)

James the Rat - Reoccuring Dream - Homer reading Illiad - Poetry and the beginning of story telling - Plato's thoughts - Fight Club and Images in movies taking Oral schemes out of Literature and putting them into Iamgery and Stimulus

Kyle of the Skinny Jeans - "The Alphabet vs. The Goddess" Book - Oral and Literate Tradition Different from Ong - Ong sets the two apart... Schlane? approaches them as being parallel and internalized - Rise of Patriarchal Society and Male Dominance Influence... Brain structures and purposes for the way we are

Tautologic Tai - The Medium is the Massage - Works directly with the Ong Book - Secondary Oral people can not perceive Primary Orality... Mcluhan says all media and mediums now do this - Juxtapositions and Experimental Book - Huge Scroll Writing/Comic/World and Meaning of Life!

Big Rich - Evolution of Orality - How complimentary these papers have been sit in his mind - Anatomically modern man and the ability to speak about the same time as the evidence of culture - Also spoke of why we speak and where it comes from (Natural Sounds and Beautiful Song)

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