The Civilization of Illiteracy

The Civilization of Illiteracy, by Mihai Nadin (C) Mihai Nadin 1997
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Foreward
Introduction Literacy in a Changing World Thinking about alternatives Progressing towards illiteracy?
The Epitome of the Civilization of Illiteracy For the love of trade The best of the useful and the best of the ornamental The rear-view mirror syndrome
From Orality to Writing Individual and collective memory Cultural memory Frames of existence The alienation of immediacy
Orality and Writing Today: What Do People Understand When They Understand Language? A feedback called confirmation Primitive orality and incipient writing Assumptions Taking literacy for granted To understand understanding Words about images
The Functioning of Language Expression, communication, signification The idea machine Writing and the expression of ideas Future and past Knowing and understanding Univocal, equivocal, ambiguous Making thoughts visible Alphabet cultures and a lesson from aphasia
Language and Logic Logics behind the logic A plurality of intellectual structures The logics of actions Sampling Memetic optimism
Literacy, Language and Market Preliminaries Products 'R' Us The language of the market The language of products Transaction and literacy Whose market? Whose freedom? New markets, new languages Literacy and the transient Market, advertisement, literacy