Innis and Kittler: The Case of the Greek Alphabet

Heilmann, Till A.

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“…This overview cannot adequately wrestle with the implications of writing and print (e.g., Eisenstein, 1980;McLuhan, 1962;Ong, 2013), but it is useful to consider two canonical accounts of the impact of the Greek alphabet. Both Innis (1950Innis ( , 1951 and Kittler (e.g., 2006) considered the Greek alphabet a critical turning point where media took hold of mind and culture (Heilmann, 2016). The Greek alphabet did not arrive ex nihilo.…”

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Strategic illiteracies: the long game of technology refusal and disconnection

Plaut

2022

Communication Theory

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Disconnection and avoidance have been theorized various ways, e.g., by analyzing communicative and non-communicative affordances of devices and platforms; categorizing tactics and patterns of non-use; and through analogy with historical ways of seeking solitude and resisting technologies. This article, however, treats history not only as a source of analogies for momentary disconnections, but also as a timescale on which to understand slower undercurrents of resistance. I define “strategic illiteracies” as: purposeful, committed refusals to learn expected communication and technology skills, not only as individual people in specific moments, but also in communities over time. This concept connects technology refusal to historical lineages of resistance to linguistic and orthographic imperialism, analyzing examples including the Greek alphabet in antiquity, Chinese characters in Asia, and the Latin alphabet through European colonization. This new framework and genealogy of avoidance and technology refusal elucidates ways forward, slowly, for successive generations to reclaim their communicative futures.

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Strategic illiteracies: the long game of technology refusal and disconnection

Plaut

2022

Communication Theory

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“…On Lacan, seeMatviyenko and Roof (2018); on Freud, seeElsaesser (2009); on Nietzsche, see Fietz (1992),Ernst (2008), andRickels (2009).42 On Kittler's Greeks in the larger context of German philhellenism, see especiallyBreger (2006). See alsoWinthrop- Young (2011: 82-119;;Powell (2012),Peters (2015b),Sale (2015), andHeilmann (2016).…”

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Michelakis¹

2020

Classics and Media Theory

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This chapter sketches out some of the features of the encounter between media theory and Greco-Roman antiquity in two complementary ways: as a field of knowledge awaiting further systematic exploration and analysis, but also as a set of methods that under the banner of ‘cultural transmission’ brings together practices for producing and processing knowledge that are fundamental to the way in which ancient cultures become ‘classical’. The discussion begins with the concept of the medium and the promise it holds for analytical work in the study of the past. It then moves on to the role of mediation in thinking about the cultural significance of communication across time and perception. It continues with a consideration of classical studies and media studies as disciplines, focusing on the kinds of research that can be pursued at their intersection. The chapter concludes with an overview of the contributions that follow.

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Innis and Kittler: The Case of the Greek Alphabet

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Strategic illiteracies: the long game of technology refusal and disconnection

Strategic illiteracies: the long game of technology refusal and disconnection

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