Primal Religions 2022

For the preparations for Tuesday's class on 1/25, I read the intro to Walter J. Ong's Orality and Literacy.  And of course what was assigned.  During this class, Zach Olander and I were online and we concluded that Douglas Adams did acid himself! Ong says that the book will be about oral vs literacy. When I read books I like to make myself questions, that help keep the bigger picture in mind or that the author has no doubt asked before.  My question is what is the difference? I will no doubt find out in further studies of the book. Is the medium still the message? I am taking my cues from our first reading on whether or not McLuhan was a semiotician. I wonder what Ong would have to say about that.  We started the class by talking about Primal and the word primal and what it means in this class. This is good because I had wondered that from the first class, but I was too shy to ask. Kip does a good job of making me think I am not as smart as I am! and I start to secon...

  Hi welcome to my blog I am going to go over what we did in class 1/13/22, questions I had in class and a little of what the reading by Danesi talked about.   For preparations for this class I skimmed “introducing semiotics a graphic guide” by Paul Cobley and Litza Jansz. The introducing… series is    a wonderful way to learn about a subject in a short amount of time. It was the gateway to many philosophers for me in high school! I spent the most time on pre history of semiotics because that Is what I am most familiar, because it talked about Plato and Aristotle. But only did I find out that that is not what was to be learned about! Semantics- is language and Semiotics is pictures in your head that you get and signs are one way you get those and there are three parts made up of a sign.  So still confused. It might have something to do with my little speech perception    difficulty. *Thanks Speech Therapist Mom!*  But it prepared me because I know...

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