Notes 1/27/2005

The world wide web is much like a true web. There are links to other sites all over the place and it becomes a kind of "create your own adventure story" when you chose links. If you keep clicking on the links you find intereseting, you will likely end up in a very different place than you began. Finnegans Wake is written like hypertext.

Ong is a scholar of Communication technology.

The great secret of mnemonics is SIGHT. Example of a museum as the place where we have placed images of past things which will help us remember what has come before. The Muses hang out there. (See 1/18/2005 notes for Muses)

Bookcrossing--> go to the mall and leave your favorite book somewhere with a note that says "I have not lost this book, I am pssing it along to you. Go to www.bookcrossing.com so that I can keep track of who and where this book ends up." I registered! You should, too. Go to the above site. It's easy. According to the site, there are 139 books "in the wild" in Montana right now...only 3 in Bozeman.

Visit a truck stop and listen to the talk there about the weather, etc. You will hear cliches and formulas which are very oral in their pragmatism and reference to the "human life world".

Umberto Eco "MacIntosh vs PC" Because of its reliance on images, iconography, and ritual, Catholicism is closely tied to the Mac. while Protestantism due to its rejection of those ideas is closer to the PC. Brian and Sophie's website have a link to the essay. check them out.

"Anamnesis"- recollection. Comes from Plato's denunciation of writing as technology.

*Journal Entry- What are our writing culture presuppositions?*