Media Quote by Marshall McLuhan

New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the…

— Marshall McLuhan

“The picture-writing of the Greeks in the pre-Homeric age was derived from a Semitic source, circa second millennium B.C., the type of alphabetic script…

— James John Courtenay

“Maybe this had been something like the colour blindness of the ancient Greeks, before words had ushered in vision - we do not see…

— Jennifer duBois

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds

— Marshall McLuhan

“The difficulties besetting the translators of the LXX were very great. It was almost impossible to reproduce the native inimitableness of a Semitic language…

— James John Courtenay

"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

— Lawrence Lessig

“Perhaps the most important single step in the whole history of writing was the Sumerians’ introduction of phonetic representation, initially by writing an abstract…

— Jared Diamond

“With the progress of the Greek arms cam the decline of the Greek language.”

— James John Courtenay

When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The…

— Jamais Cascio

Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from looking at…

— Julian Jaynes

If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think…

— John Eaton

“Accents must have been pretty important in Ancient Greek, because a man called Herodian wrote a treatise in twenty-one books about them, most of…

— Caroline Taggart