Kudos to the team at Kurzgesagt. Beautiful concept and execution.
Education
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The Shift from Orality to Literacy
Imagining the way the technology of writing and reading reconfigures one's brain
Last night, as I was watching this anime series on Netflix called Orb: On the Movements of the Earth (チ。―地球の運動について―) with my two sons, this scene came on at the end of Season 1 Episode 9, and it struck me as the perfect entry point to the concept of orality (apologies for the bootleg quality and lack of sound):
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The series, based on a Japanese manga drawn by Uoto (魚豊) from 2020-2022, is a quasi-historical fiction centering on the discovery of heliocentrism in 15th Century Europe. It is a speculative portrait of a time
Back to Life, Back to Orality
Just last week, we heard this pronouncement from D. Graham Burnett, a historian of Science and Technology at Princeton on the Hard Fork podcast:
YouTube Short excerpt from a longer segment on the Hard Fork podcast featuring D. Graham Burnett.
Great insights here. Let's go through them line by line. Graham says:
Longform immersive literacy is coming to an end as a widespread cultural phenomenon.
"Longform immersive literacy" is such a good way to frame deep reading and books. I like the distinction he's deliberately making between deep, contemplative, analytical, "good" reading and fast, cursory, easily distracted skimming, "not so
