The Violence of the Letter
The emergence of the alphabet in ancient Greece, usually heralded as the first step in the inexorable march toward reason and progress, in fact signaled the introduction of a chance technology that hijacked the future, with devastating consequences for humanity. By investigating an array of cultural...
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University of Michigan Press
2023
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| author | McMahon, Melanie |
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| description | The emergence of the alphabet in ancient Greece, usually heralded as the first step in the inexorable march toward reason and progress, in fact signaled the introduction of a chance technology that hijacked the future, with devastating consequences for humanity. By investigating an array of cultural artifacts, ranging from Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey to the Oracle at Delphi to Luther's challenge to the Church, this book demonstrates how the apparently benign emergence of writing made possible far-ranging systems of organized domination and unprecedented levels of violence. The Violence of the Letter considers how a twenty-six-letter code changed the face of the world, and not always for the better. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1215652025-03-20T15:57:03Z The Violence of the Letter McMahon, Melanie literary theory, writing, alphabet, literacy, colonialism, capitalism, Derrida, Marx, Havelock, Ong, Althusser, critical theory, French theory, Foucault, violence, imperialism, Western civilization, oral culture, indigenous studies, postcolonial theory, settler colonial theory, culturalstudies, world history, Empire, antiquity, history of writing, Lévi-Strauss, printing press, Luther, monotheism, Oedipus complex, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus Tyrannus, oracle at Delphi, Pythia, schooling, neuropsychology, media archaeology, media studies, media theory, media ecology The emergence of the alphabet in ancient Greece, usually heralded as the first step in the inexorable march toward reason and progress, in fact signaled the introduction of a chance technology that hijacked the future, with devastating consequences for humanity. By investigating an array of cultural artifacts, ranging from Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey to the Oracle at Delphi to Luther's challenge to the Church, this book demonstrates how the apparently benign emergence of writing made possible far-ranging systems of organized domination and unprecedented levels of violence. The Violence of the Letter considers how a twenty-six-letter code changed the face of the world, and not always for the better. 2023-11-16T11:26:32Z 2023-11-16T11:26:32Z 2023-09-11T13:04:32Z 2023 book OCN: 1376446410 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76176 9780472075911 9780472055913 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121565 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76176/1/9780472903238.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76176/1/9780472903238.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76176/1/9780472903238.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76176/1/9780472903238.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.12406894 10.3998/mpub.12406894 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 9780472075911 9780472055913 213 open access |
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