Tray # 14
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iambarr | September 24, 2008
combines anthropological field work with experimental psychological methods questions the proposition that writing is an impetus which gives way to intellectual development frailty of evidence for such generalizations literacy as a cultural phenomena does not necessarily correlate to individual cognitive changes need empirical testing to prove these hypotheses writing is often: -viewed as a set [...]
iambarr | September 13, 2008
three cards past – the sun present – 7 of discs (failure) future – 3 of cups (abundance) mammon trip the world is in need of a new fire cult fire as a lost element in human consciousness -an imbalance mammon as a fire deity correlation between money and fire consume/eat “burning a hole…” aryan/zoroastrian [...]
iambarr | September 11, 2008
iambarr | September 9, 2008
the first village we encountered was quite reasonable. we negotiated a trade which benefitted everyone. they gave us their land and their gold. we gave them reruns of dallas. the next village had to be purified with fire. humans? yes i remember them. i’ve never seen a species more fascinated by placing things in boxes.
iambarr | September 8, 2008
literacy imperious, intrusive “takes possession of consciousness” orality – retain agglomerates, lacjs exploratory thinking literacy – analysis, allows for logic, linear thinking plato’s objections to writing -writing is inhuman -writing is unresponsive -writing destroy memory orality is natural, writing is artificial, contrived “technologies are not mere exterior aids but also interior transformations of consciousness, and [...]
iambarr | September 8, 2008
here i write.
