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print culture1history of informationfeb 10, 2009HofI 10 -- Print Culture aobAdrian Johnson history of 'piracy'http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/02/03/johnsCodex Sinaiticushttp://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/codexsinai.html2HofI 10 -- MS Culture 2something happenedweek1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 2010198019501900180017001600120060040005003000500030,00050,000weekyearPlato427-347 bcTrithemius1462-1516notmuchhappening?Johannes Gutenberg138? - 1468HofI 10 -- Print Culture where we're goingEisenstein:readers respondassessing a revolution:what happened, what came before, what came after, who was involvedtechnology problemswhat happened elsewherewhat was necessary, what sufficient, what incidentalwhat to make of it all4HofI 10 -- Print Culture agent of changeEisenstein"I first became concerned with the topic of this book in the early 1960s after reading [a] ... lament over 'the loss of mankind's memory' ... It seemed unhistorical to equate the fate of the 'common culture of Bible reading' with that of all of Western civilization when the former was so much more recent--being the by-product of an invention which was only five-hundred year's old ... Gutenberg"5HofI 10 -- Print Culture McLuhan is the message"I ran across a copy of Marshall McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy ... He pronounced ... the age of Gutenberg to be at an end ... stimulated my curiosity ... about the specific historical consequences of the fifteenth-century communications shift"McLuhan raised a number of questions about the actual effects of the advent of printing ..."--Eisenstein6HofI 10 -- Print Culture electronic manMcLuhan (1911-1980)The Gutenberg Galaxy: the making of typographic man, 1962"Printing ... created the public ... What we have called 'nations' ... did not and could not, precede the advent of Gutenberg technology ... isolation of the visual faculty from other senses ..."7HofI 10 -- Print Culture altered senses?McLuhan's Man"When the perverse ingenuity of man has outered some part of his being in material technology, his entire sense ratio is altered. ... In beholding this new thing, man is compelled to become it."--MM Gutenberg GalaxyEisenstein's reader"Editorial decisions made by early printers ... helped to reorganize the thinking of readers."--EE, The Printing Revolution8"Science Explores, Technology Executes, Man Conforms"Chicago World's FairHofI 10 -- Print Culture agent of changeEisenstein"to my surprise ... no one had yet attempted to survey the consequences of the 15th-century communications shift."" ... an unacknowledged revolution."9HofI 10 -- Print Culture agent of change"Conjectures .. may be sampled below under headings that indicate my main line of enquiry"10This shift, which revolutionized all forms of learning... affected human behavior ... a large cluster of changesHofI 10 -- Print Culture agent of change"Conjectures .. may be sampled below under headings that indicate my main line of enquiry"10This shift, which revolutionized all forms of learning... affected human behavior ... a large cluster of changes"some effects produced by ...HofI 10 -- Print Culture agent of change"Conjectures .. may be sampled below under headings that indicate my main line of enquiry"10This shift, which revolutionized all forms of learning... affected human behavior ... a large cluster of changes"some effects produced by ..."... increased outputHofI 10 -- Print Culture agent of change"Conjectures .. may be sampled below under headings that indicate my main line of enquiry"10This shift, which revolutionized all forms of learning... affected human behavior ... a large cluster of changes"some effects produced by ..."... increased output"... standardizationHofI 10 -- Print Culture agent of change"Conjectures .. may be sampled below under headings that indicate my main line of enquiry"10This shift, which revolutionized all forms of learning... affected human behavior ... a large cluster of changes"some effects produced by ..."... increased output"... standardization"... rationalizing, codifying, cataloguingHofI 10 -- Print Culture agent of change"Conjectures .. may be sampled below under headings that indicate my main line of enquiry"10This shift, which revolutionized all forms of learning... affected human behavior ... a large cluster of changes"some effects produced by ..."... increased output"... standardization"... rationalizing, codifying, cataloguing"... from corrupted to improvedHofI 10 -- Print Culture agent of change"Conjectures .. may be sampled below under headings that indicate my main line of enquiry"10This shift, which revolutionized all forms of learning... affected human behavior ... a large cluster of changes"some effects produced by ..."... increased output"... standardization"... rationalizing, codifying, cataloguing"... from corrupted to improved"... fixity and cumulative changeHofI 10 -- Print Culture agent of change"Conjectures .. may be sampled below under headings that indicate my main line of enquiry"10This shift, which revolutionized all forms of learning... affected human behavior ... a large cluster of changes"some effects produced by ..."... increased output"... standardization"... rationalizing, codifying, cataloguing"... from corrupted to improved"... fixity and cumulative change"... amplification and reinforcement"HofI 10 -- Print Culture Trithemius vs Eisensteinwhat was he thinking?"modern scholars smile at the notion of an abbot instructing his monks to copy printed books so that texts would not perish."--Eisenstein11HofI 10 -- Print Culture there's copying and then there's ...12what was he thinking?"There are four ways men make books. One writes another's words, but adds or changes nothing. He is called a writer. Another writes others' words and adds work from yet others. He is called a compiler. A third adds his own words to the writing of another, but the other remains the central text, what is added merely evidence. He is called a commentator. And one writes both his own and another's words, but his are the main text and the other is added as confirmation. He truly can be called an author."St Bonaventure of Bagnoregio (1217-1274), CommentariesHofI 10 -- Print Culture there's copying and then there's ...12what was he thinking?"There are four ways men make books. One writes another's words, but adds or changes nothing. He is called a writer. Another writes others' words and adds work from yet


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