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Class 2 Notes

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Preliminary Class Business

Enrollment
Preferred email sign-up sheet
Special early assignment for next class

What's at Stake?

Logic of first part of the course (see Schedule)

Readings for today — Everyday Reading, Past and Present

Plato, from Phaedrus (the myth of Theuth and the invention of writing) [PDF] (360 B.C.E.)
Alberto Manguel, "The Silent Readers" from his A History of Reading (1996)
Alberto Manguel, "How Pinocchio Learned to Read" [PDF], open-access version of essay from his A Reader on Reading (2011)
Nicholas Carr, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" (2008)

1. Plato

from Phaedrus [PDF] (360 B.C.E.)

abbreviated excerpt

References for discussion:

Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word

2. Augustine

Alberto Manguel, "The Silent Readers" from his A History of Reading (1996)

Ambrose
Augustine's conversion moment

Augustine, from The Confessions (397 AD)

References for discussion:

Scriptio continua
William Warner, Kimberly Knight, and UCSB Transliteracies History of Reading Group, "In the Beginning was the Word: A Visualization of the Page as Interface" (Flash animation)
André Kertész

3. Pinocchio

Alberto Manguel, "How Pinocchio Learned to Read"

4. digital-Pinocchio

Nicholas Carr, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" (2008)

Readings for next class

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