The Violence of the Letter : Toward a Theory of Writing /
The emergence of the alphabet in ancient Greece, usually heralded as the first step in the inexorable march toward reason and progress, in fact signaled the introduction of a chance technology that hijacked the future, with devastating consequences for humanity. By investigating an array of cultural...
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Ann Arbor, Michigan :
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2023.
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