it's B! Cavello šRecently encountering a bunch of content referencing a literacy vs orality culture, seeming to imply that literacy culture is specifically about WRITING rather than recording. This seems super weird to me. (And has a sort of ableist āaudio doesnāt count as readingā vibe about it.) Whatās especially odd to me is Iām seeing this expressed by a buncha folks who seem very thoughtful usuallyā¦ like am I missing something obvious here? It just feels so odd to me. Like people are just parroting a memeā¦
Like a sentiment people will express is something to the effect of ānow that weāre watching videos and listening to podcasts, weāre returning to an orality cultureā or, in the best cases, at least proposing that it is a post-literacy phenomenon (like not returning, per se, but moving into something new).
While I am inclined to embrace the possibility of āsomething newā it just feels like a tremendously superficial understanding of what literacy got us. I really donāt think it was about writing!
Spencer