Take Ong, Postman, McLuhan – smash them together in NotebookLM and then click Audio Overview. Have a listen and enjoy.

We’re at the end of the exploration of Ong’s psychodynamics of orality – The Interiority of Sound.

The first of Ong’s psychodynamics of orality I can’t argue: “Word are not signs.” In our world they most definitely are and likely always will be.

This weeks continuation of our oral culture discovery: “Orality, community and the sacral”. You only get nervous about things that are important.

“Verbomotor Lifestyle”. Is it why no one wants to talk on the phone anymore? Is this the first twist for aliteracy and why we’re still good with subtitles?

Generative Memorization

My exploration of Ong’s ‘Orality and Literacy’. Now “Oral Memorization” or is it “Generative Memorization”? From oral through literate to today, has memorization gone full circle?

https://whoisnick.com/generative-memorization/

#aliterate #Ong #orality

What is my human lifeworld?

Can I compare Ong’s characteristics of an oral culture with our modern world? If so, what does that mean? This week “Close to the human lifeworld.

https://whoisnick.com/what-is-my-human-lifeworld/

#aliterate #Ong #orality

It all looks the same

Have you noticed nothing seems that new anymore? “Conservative or traditionalist” – The next topic in my exploration of Ong’s, Orality and literacy.

https://whoisnick.com/it-all-looks-the-same/

#aliterate #Ong #orality

With the constant whitewashing of #bribes to the US #president as "Oh, but it's going to his future presidential library", would it be #unkind to suggest that such a library would either have to have entirely empty shelves, or be full of nothing but pornographic magazines, picture books, and magazine covers featuring a certain orange menace?

He's #aliterate. A "library" is a category error for the man, as are "facts" and "information".

#USPol #Trump #literacy #OrangeMenace #MangoMussolini #MelonFelon #illiterate #idiot #porn #ego