More class notes

1. READ CLASSMATES BLOGS AND REPLY TO THEM! IF NOT YOU MIGHT JUST DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH!
2. ONG SAID IN HIS BOOK THAT WE INTERNALIZE TO MANY WORDS. IN A SENSE WE ARE WORD DRUNK.
3. ODDIN WANTS TO KNOW HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT I THINK? HIS ANSWER IS TO SEE WHAT I SAY!
4. ONG AGAIN: TALKS ABOUT TWO THINGS: CHIROGRAPHIC (WRITING) AND TYPOGRAPHIC (WRITING)
5. MARSHELL MCKLUEEN SAID TECHNOLOGY IS AN EXTENSION OF ONES BODY
6. EPISTIOLARY CULTURE IS A CULTURE OF LETTERS
7. ROLAND BALTZ TALKED ABOUT THE PLEASURE OF A TEXT
8. KNOW HOW TO CONNECT FINNIGANS WAKE BY JOYCE TO MARSHELL MCKLUEEN.
9. ONG SAYS TELEPHONE IS TECHNOLOGY. WE DO NOT REALIZE THIS BECAUSE WE INTERNALIZE TECHNOLOGY AND IT BECOMES NATURAL TO US. IT IS JUST THE WAY WE DO THINGS.
10. THE T.V VERSUS RADIO CONTROVERSY!: T.V TAKES AWAY IMAGINATION
11. IMPORTANT IMAGERY: ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN AND THE TYPEWRITER SCENE
12. LUDDISM: NOT LIKING TECHNOLOGY (YOU JUST MIGHT BE A LUDDITE IF YOU HATE TECHNOLOGY). THE TERM COMES FROM KING LUDD
13. PP.34 OF ONG IS A BIG ONE: REMEMBER TO THINK MEMORABLE THOUGHTS!
14. PLATO: THE SYMPOSIOUM ATTACKS WRITING. WHEN YOU WRITE IT YOU DON'T HAVE TO REMEMBER IT. THE ONLY AUTHENTIC DEVICE IS ORAL TRADITIONS!
15. SECOND ORALITY: EVEN IF YOU ARE ILLITERATE YOU LIVE IN A LITERATE SOCIETY. YOU WILL NEVER SEE THE WORLD AS BEING PRIMARILY ORAL! WHY IS THIS? WRITING CHANGES OUR CONCOUSNESS. LISA FROM OUR CLASS HAD A WONDERFUL STORY ABOUT A ILLITERATE RELATIVE THAT IS SHARP AS A TAC!
16. YATES SAID SOMETIMES THE MOST AWEFUL THINGS STAND OUT IN OUR MIND AND ARE MEMORABLE. FOR EXAMPLE, THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION (PROFESSOR SEXSON ANNOUNCED IT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON) OR 9/11. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE HORRIBLE THOUGH, WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER WHERE WE WERE WHEN OBAMA WAS SWORN INTO OFFICE.
17. SYMULOCHRUM (SPELLING?) IS A REPRESENTATION LIKE BENS LEGO CABIN IS A REPRESENTATION OF HIS CABIN IN ALASKA.
18. TRY AND MAKE EVERY DAY MEMORABLE DAMN IT!
19. MEMORY IS LIKE A PALACE WITH LOTS OF ROOMS
20. SHANNONS EARLIEST MEMORE WAS BEING STRANDED IN HER BACKYARD AND HER DAD SAVED HER. WHAT HE WAS REALLY DOING WAS MAKING A VIDEO OF HOW GOSH DARN ADDORABLE SHE IS. WE FOUND OUT THOUGH THAT THIS WASN'T HER EARLIEST MEMORY, SHE JUST REMEMBERED THE VIDEO NOT THE ACTUAL EVENT.
21. SUTTER AGAIN AND HIS RENAGADE BLOGGER. SAM (HIS GIRLFRIEND, ON A GOOD DAY, WROTE A BLOG ABOUT PLATO).
22. TEST 1 IS FEBUARY 20TH. THE SAME DAY AS JON NAE'S 21RST BDAY!